Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Dictionary of legal terms of Jus Commune and of Scots feudal law

Incipit:

  • The courtisie of Scotland is [and then:] the life rent

Dictionary of legal terms of Jus Commune and of Scots feudal law .

No mention of an author, no title. Written by the same hand as before. No intelligible order of arrangement

No. of pages: Pag. 88-92

Incipit:

  • [{i}First definitions:{/i}] The courtisie of Scotland is the life rent of the wife's heretadge.

    Ane terce is the thrid of the lands during the wife's lifetime.

    Tutor testamentaris constitute by the parent in his testament.

    Tutor of lawe is the nearest agnatte.

    Tutor dative is ordained by the king.

    Assythment is the obligation to repaire the damnadge sustained by slaughter, mutilation or other injuries to the members or health of the body.

    Extortion signifies the act of force or other ane of fear [{i}Last definitions:{/i}] A charge to enter heire is of two kinds, ane generall and ane speciall charge ... [{i}this text is long{/i}] ... by what service, by whom.

    Collation is the obligation of the nearest heire descending to communicate what the defunct parent bestowed upon them by donation or tocher unto the inheritance, that ane equall or proportionable distribution be of the whole among the heires.

    The right of accressione is that, whereby the portion of ane legator or fidei commissor befalleth to another, not by ane new severall succession, but by the first succession and as a pairt therof