Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Treatise "Minor practicks" .

Written by a different scribe, and from page 3 onward in much darker ink which at times penetrated to the other side of the paper. Page 58 and parts of pages 57 and 63 were penned in an entirely different character. The headings of chapters are not numbered. Readers may be mislead by the fact that some headings are followed by a number (from 1 to 6). Yet, these numbers only envisage to correct some disorder in the copy

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Author(s):

• Thomas Hope of Craighall

No. of pages: Pag. 1-80 (second series of pagination):

Rubric: Sir Thomas Hope his short r(e)ndiments of the Scots law. The forme of proces

Incipit:

• First, ther is a generall that no summonds can be callit before the Lords quhill the first day of compeirance be bygone

Explicit:

• Tailzie. Item ther is a difference betwixt a band or contract ... they cannot haw the right but cum sua conditione et causa. Finis.

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  [{i}Headings - they are not numbered. The numbers from 1 to 6 appended to some headings probably envisage to correct an incorrect order of arrangement:{/i}] Off kirks and bishopes (pag. 6). Off commissers (pag. 11). The air universall successor behaveand as air, when to be persewed, 6 (pag. 16). Distinctions betwixt heritable and moveable bonds (pag. 17). Air generall of lyne of tailzie, or provisions of conquest, and of the second mariage, when and how to be persewed, 5 (pag. 19). The ordor and successione off aires 4 (pag. 20). The entrie of aires, donators of ward (pag. 22). Extent old and new (pag. 25). Anent precepts out of the Chancellarie upon retoures, to shireffs, and the shireffs dutie thairanent (pag. 27). Off gifts of ward taxed and precepts out off the Chancellarie, commanding uther superiors by the king to give saisine to thair wassels upon a retour to the Chancellarie (pag. 28). The difference betwixt a saisine on a retoure, precept 'Clare constat', and the vassels procedor against the superior that is not infeft, 3 (pag. 29). Whither the superior loses his superioritie dureing his oun lyftyme, or his vassels lyftyme, or both (pag. 30). Anent the preference of base and publict infeftments, and in quhat maner the one is preferred to the uther (pag. 31). Anent publict infeftments upon resignatione and confirmatione, in quhat they differ (pag. 33). The superior may not be compelled to accept a resignatione or confirme (a) stranger, but the air of his vassell (pag. 35). The good and necessitie of confirmatione and of registres, 1 (pag. 35). Anent reversiones, and the intimatione and assignatione thairof (pag. 36). Anent escheat and the donators theroff (pag. 37). Anent forfaultur, bastardrie and last air, and how the gifts thairoff passess the sealls (pag. 41). Generall and speciall declarator (pag. 43). Signatur, signet, seall - the forme of passing signaturs (pag. 43). Anent precepts of seasine and the maner off takeing saisine (pag. 47). The jurisdiction of a barron (pag. 48). The jurisdictione of a shirreff and bailzie of regalitie (pag. 48). The jurisdictione of stewarts and brughs (pag. 49). Judicium possessorium (pag. 52). Petitorium judicium, and perambulations (pag. 53). Personall and reall actiones (pag. 53). Anent inhibitiones (pag. 54). Reductiones ex capite inhibitionis (pag. 55). Anent compryseings (pag. 56). Allowance and comprysing (pag. 58). Adjudications (pag. 59). Improbatione and reductione (pag. 61). Anent warneing and removeings (pag. 62). Nullities off law (pag. 66). Improbation be vay of actione or exceptione (pag. 67). Exceptiones declinator and dilatorie, and exceptiones in removeing (pag. 68). Decreits, precepts, and horning thairupon (pag. 69). Anent suspending decreits, decreits of registratione, and transferring decreits upon generall and particullar citatione (pag. 70). Reductiones of decreits, principaliter et in consequentiam (pag. 73). What way a lyffrent is assignat (pag. 75). Tailzie (pag. 76).

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