Manuscripta juridica

Tractatus de feudis "Jus feudale" - compend in Scots 'We have no other lawe' .

Written by the same hand as the two texts before, and on the same type of paper

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Author(s):

• Thomas Craig of Riccarton

No. of pages: Pag. 1-144 (second series of numbering):

Rubric: Ane abridgement of Mr. Thomas Craiges bookes upon the fewes

Incipit:

• Cap. 1. Wee have no other lawe bot the Acts of Parliament, whilk, albeit they be for the most pairt pennd for the policie of the kingdome, yet there are many of them which decides causes, and by these first the Lords of Session judges causes. Were there is no Act of Parliament, then wee judge by ane perpetuall consuetude, whilk wee call 'practique', bot it is not to be followed, tho never so old, if it be against the written lawe.

  Practiques are to be used as the Lords useth wittness insert in contracts or bands, videlicet the testimony is ever beleeved, bot when any doubt arises aither anent the mind of the contracters or anent the clearing of that whilk was done

Explicit:

• [{i}book 3:{/i}] The rest of the causes of lossing fewes, cap. 5. If a vassell pollute himself in incest ... nather may the superior interpone a superior betuixt him and his vassell

Colophon: Libri tertii finis