Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (digest of "Auld Lawis"), systematic (preparatory work for 'Balfour's Practicks', in six books, in Scots) .

Pagination in ink 1-283, saec. XIX. The present manuscript was copied from the same ancestor MS as MS Edinburgh, NR Scotland, GD112/71/5. The ancestor MS was either misbound, or it consisted of loose leaves and some of them were not in their correct place. The first page has been maltreated with chemicals in order to make the faded ink readable, but this has effected that it is now extremely difficult to decipher the text. It might be interesting to compare this MS to the attempted translation of Regiam maiestatem into Scots in MS Edinburgh, UL, Laing III.423, but this translation breaks off after only three pages.

[{i}Arrangement of the work:{/i}].

Liber 1, de iure personarum (pag. 2).

Appendix to Liber 1 (but with wrong page headings 'Liber secundus'): De legibus burgorum (pag. 43).

Liber 2 [{i}book's title not copied{/i}], (pag. 83).

Liber 3 [{i}book's title not copied{/i}], (pag. 99).

Liber 4, de preparatoriis iudiciorum, sive de iudiciis (pag. 118, breaks off incomplete in the middle of title 14 c. 5).

Liber 5, de civilibus actionibus (pag. 163).

Liber 6, de causis criminalibus (pag. 219)

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Author(s):

• James Balfour of Pittendreich

No. of pages: Pag. 1-283

Rubric: The lawis off Regiam maiestatem, proffitable foir the comoun weill off this realme, selectit and gadderit in ane competent method and faithfullie translaitit in Inglisch

Incipit:

• [{i}Preface:{/i}] The preface, anno 1575 [{i}?{/i}]. It becummis the kingis maiestie ... command and charge off ane maist excellent and revearrit prince and oure soverane King James the sext, with adwise off the richt michtie Lorde James Erle of Mortoune, Lorde of Dalkeithe, regent for the tyme to his hienes ... [{i}last words:{/i}] and the better knawin to all oure soverane Lordis leigis and pepille of this realme
• [{i}Main text:{/i}] Liber i. [De] iu[re] per[sona]r[u]m. Liber primus. Off the lawe, tit. 1. off the lawe, c. 1. The lawe is devidit in thre pairtis: in the lawe off nature, in the law off god, and in the positive vrittin(?) law. The naturall law is that quhilk is writtin be the finger off god or off nature

Explicit:

• Thay quha cummis to the kinges hoste suld nocht spulzie nor reif the cuntrie men, cap. 2. It is statute and ordanit that thai quha cummis ... as sal be necessare to him in his ward(?) aige Stat. i. Robert Br., c. 3; Stat. 2 R. Br., c. 6.

  Pag. 284 Probationes pennae