Manuscripta juridica

Institutions of the law of Scotland .

Mention of author only supplied by embossed letters on spine, saec. XIX. The text was obviously re-worked to add younger material: e.g. vol. 1 fol. 527r and 530r reference to two cases of 1762. Quotes Corpus iuris canonici, e.g. vol. 1 fol. 467r. Quotes Corpus iuris civilis, e.g. vol. 1 fol. 255r, 416r, 528v-529r; very frequently quoted in the second volume

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Author(s):

• George Wallace

No. of pages: Volumes 1-2:

Rubric: A system of the principles of the law of Scotland.

(Vol. 1, fol. 1r ss.) (Book first.) [{i}General notions about law.{/i}].

[{i}First chapter heading in the margin:{/i}] The primaeval state of man

Incipit:

• The resemblance between those characters or marks which men use for expressing their thoughts in a durable manner, and the ideas or sounds represented by them, is very remote. The progress therefore of language must have been ...24.

  (Vol. 1 fol. 227) Book third [{i}should rather read 'Book second'{/i}]. Title 1. Of persons.

  (Vol. 2 fol. 1r) Book third. Title 1. Of things, possession, property, and their divisions.

  [{i}Breaks off with a heading for title XXXIV.{/i}]