Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, alphabetical) 'Admiralls' - 'Wreate' and 'Use' . Andrew Duke of Argyll lent the volume 'to Baron Erskine to be compairit by the Justice Clerk or him with Wallace of Craigies manuscript or ony other, to clear up who is the author. Sept. anno 1797' (note on front cover).

Foliation on every 10th leaf, but by error the leaf numbered '10' should rather be the eleventh, and so forth. The work refers to acts of Parliament and decisions. Arranged under one main set of keyword titles. Under each keyword, the individual entries tend to follow a chronological order, but they are written in many instalments in different colours of ink, and thus maybe by several different hands. Additions by several other hands.

The main set of entries mainly refers to decisions. Their bulk dates from the 1620s, a lesser part from the 1630s. Few decisions bear later dates: 1642 (fol. 1v, '13v'), 1644 ('19r').

Dated additions: many year dates from the 1660s. One from 1677 (fol. '9v')

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No. of pages: Fol. 1r-187r

Incipit:

• [{i}First items:{/i}] Admiralls should keepe the same course with stranger nations in mater of prises and wrack as strangers keepe in lyke casses with our people in thair Admeralityes. Act 124, p. 9, Jacobus 1. And the Court of Admirality is a soverainge judicatorie.

  Air renuncing usis lykways to gett adjudication of all lands alledged belonging to the defunct ... [{i}An addition by another hand quotes decisions 1664/7/2 Levingstone contra Forrester, 1664/11/25 Shaw of Sornbog contra Forrester and the creditors of Grange, 1665/1/27 Boyd contra Kintor{/i}].

  [{i}Next keywords:{/i}] Advancing of mailes and dewtyes. Administrator. Advising of process. Adulterie. Advocations. Aires. Aliment.

  [{i}Last keywords:{/i}] Wreate. Use