Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, systematic) - Scrivener's letter to the reader .

[{i}The scrivener explains that he omitted many titles of the first book:{/i}]

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Author(s):

• James Balfour of Pittendreich

No. of pages: Fol. 0v-2r

Incipit:

• Gentil reider, it will pleiss The to be forsein that I have omittet mony titils in the beginning and progresse of the first buik (intituled 'De legibus') as nocht swa profetable as the rest quhilk I have wrettin at length. Zet nevirtheless, leist Thow suld be in ony doute of the contentis and effect of the saidis titils omittet: to certifie The thairof, I have heir insert ane catalogue of them in maner following.

  The first titill is of the law and divisioun thairof: De maritagio, cap.3; Statuta Wilhelmi, cap. 29; De iudicibus, cap.2. ... [{i}11 chapters listed{/i}]. Second title of the king and the quene ... [{i}15 chapters listed{/i}]. Certane chapters of the title of the kirk omittet ... [{i}30 chapters listed{/i}]. 31. After the title 'Of vassals' sum buikis hes the title 'Of beggars ...' [{i}= edition of Balfour's Practicks, p. 129{/i}].{i}{/i}34. title omittet is 'Of hostillaris ...' [{i}= edition, p. 132{/i}]. Tuiching the pest 35. Thair suld na man suspect of pestilence ... J. 2, f. 38 [{i}the reference is correct{/i}], Act 63, 19 Oct. 1456 [{i}= edition, p. 132{/i}]. Of studis and stude places [{i}= edition, p. 132{/i}]. Anent bigging of castels in the North [{i}= edition, p. 132{/i}].

  [{i}Fol. 1r-v, List of chapters of the fifth book which the scrivener omitted:{/i}] And this is the effect of the titils omittet in the first[!] buik:{i} ...{/i}[{i}garbled, the fifth book is meant{/i}].

  (Fol. 1v-2r) The severall heidis of the chapters nocht wrettin in the end of the volume, after the title 'Off sverairs, etc.': The king sall tak inquisitioun of sorners