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Dictionarium verborum iuris proprii Scotiae 'De verborum significatione'

Author(s):

  • John Skene of Curriehill

Incipit:

  • Actilia: armour, weapons, [and then:] harnishing

Explicit:

  • castel-wardis\ called\ are\

Dictionarium verborum iuris proprii Scotiae 'De verborum significatione' , first edited in print in 1597, as an appendix to Scotland's statutes.

[{i}Title page:{/i}] De verborum significatione. The exposition of the termes and difficill wordes conteined in the foure buikes of Regiam maiestatem, and uthers, in the Acts of Parliament, infeftments; and used in practique of this realme; with diverse rules and common places, or principalles of the lawes. Collected and exponed be M. John Skene, Clerke of our Soveraine Lordis Register, Councell, and rolles. Edinburgh: Alexander Smellie, 1681.

[{i}146 pages of text, reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., Clark, New Jersey, in 2006{/i}].

[{i}The Scottish Parliament ratified the order to print this treatise a second time: 1681 c. 133 = APS VIII 389.{/i}]

Author(s): John Skene of Curriehill (editor, probably also author)

No. of pages: (item 1)

Incipit:

  • Actilia: armour, weapons, harnishing, Sta. 2. Roberti Bruyse, c. ordinatum 27. Quhair it is statute that ilk man havand ten pounds worth of gudes sall have for the defence of his body and realme, ane sufficient acton and basnet, with gluifes of plait, ane speir, ane sword, and quha-sa-ever hes nocht ane acton

Explicit:

  • Zemsel of ane castell: the custodie and keiping of ane castell ... And in this realme landes annuel-rents, or dewties, given for the keiping of castelles, are called 'castel-wardis'

Colophon: Finis. Alex. Smellie, Printer