Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (general digest of law, systematic) "Major practicks" .

[{i}Title page:{/i}] Hope's Major practicks 1608-1633, edited by James Avon Clyde, formerly Lord Justice-General of Scotland and President of the Court of Session, Vol. 1 p. 1-335 and vol. 2 p. 1-306, Edinburgh: 1937-1938 (The Stair Society, vols. 3-4).

The plan of the work reminds me remotely of the digest of "Auld Lawis" in MS London, BL, Addit. 48050 [Yelverton 55], and of the arrangement in Balfour's Practicks. Eight parts, dedicated to eight groups of subject matters, each subdivided into titles: (1) Law and government civil and ecclesiastical, (2) Personal rights, (3) Real rights, (4) Wills and succession, (5) Courts and jurisdiction, (6) Actions and diligence, (7) Process and evidence, (8) Crime. The sixth part is the largest = actions and diligence. Next largest is the third part = real rights.

[{i}Chapter headings of the eight parts:{/i}].

1.1 De jure quo utimur ... 1.2 De rege ... 1.3 Of the Parliament ... 1.4 Of kirks and kirkmen and the jurisdictione of kirkmen ... 1.5 Of burrowes and burgesse ... 1.6 Of the king's patrimonie, and of annexations and dissolutions, and of the king's forrests and parks, and of revocations ... 1.7 Of the exchequer ... 1.8 Of signatours ... 1.9 Of the patrimonie of the kirk ... 1.10 Of erections ... 1.11 Of taxations.

2.1 Of contracts ... 2.2 De pactis ... 2.3 De obligationibus ... 2.4 De empto et vendito ... 2.5 De mutuo et commodato ... 2.6 De locato et conducto ... 2.7 De donationibus ... 2.8 De donationibus inter virum et uxorem ... 2.9 De pignore ... 2.10 De deposito ... 2.11 De fidejussoribus ... 2.12 Of assignations and intimations ... 2.13 De creditoribus et his quae in fraudem creditorum facta sunt ... 2.14 Of payment and discharge ... 2.15 De inhibitionibus ... 2.16 Of interdictiones ... 2.17 Of husband and wife ... 2.18 De mandato ... 2.19 De dolo.

3.1 De feudis ... 3.2 Of charters and evidents and of transumeing of evidents ... 3.3 Of alienatione of infeftments ... 3.4 Of warrandice ... 3.5 Of procuratories and instruments of resignation ... 3.6 Instruments of seaseing ... 3.7 Of superiors and superiorities ... 3.8 Of confirmations ... 3.9 Of taylies ... 3.10 Of wodsetts and reversions ... 3.11 Of reversiones and redemption ... 3.12 Of lyferents, tearces, and conjunct fees ... 3.13 Of annuellrentis ... 3.14 Of the patronage of the kirk ... 3.15 Of fishings ... 3.16 Of milnes and multures ... 3.17 Of coalls and coalheuches ... 3.18 De decimis ... 3.19 Of tacks and tennents ... 3.20 Of parts and pendicles and of unions ... 3.21 Of possession ... 3.22 Of wassalls ... 3.23 De clausulis irritantibus ... 3.24 De servitutibus ... 3.25 Of waird and relief ... 3.26 Of the marriage of heirs ... 3.27 Of non-entrie ... 3.28 Of recognition ... 3.29 Of disclamation ... 3.30 Of rentalls ... 3.31 Of herezields ... 3.32 Of forfaultour.

4.1 De testamentis ... 4.2 De legatis ... 4.3 De successionibus ... 4.4 De executoribus ... 4.5 De heredibus et hereditatibus ... 4.6 Of universal intromitters ... 4.7 De universalibus successoribus et de successoribus titulo lucrativo post debitum contractum ... 4.8 De bastardis ... 4.9 De minoribus ... 4.10 De tutoribus et curatoribus.

5.1 De judicibus et jurisdictione ... 5.2 Of the Secret Counsell ... 5.3 Of the Justice ... 5.4 Of the Sessione ... 5.5 Of the Chamberlane ... 5.6 Of ordinar judges in generall ... 5.7 Of the shireff ... 5.8 Of the stewarts ... 5.9 Of regalities and their jurisdictione, and of heritable officers ... 5.10 Of the jurisdictione of barrons ... 5.11 Of the jurisdictione of the Lyon and of heraulds, officiars, and messengers ... 5.12 Of inqueists of assises in civil matters ... 5.13 Of commissaries ... 5.14 Of the chancellarie and of breives and retoures ... 5.15 Of arbiters and decreets arbitrall ... 5.16 Of parties, and first of the pursuer ... 5.17 Of the defender ... 5.18 Of repledging.

6.1 De actionibus civilibus in genere ... 6.2 Of actions summar by way of charge ... 6.3 Of exhibitione ... 6.4 Of summondis to make arreisted goods furthcomand ... 6.5 Of breiking of arreist ... 6.6 Of advocations ... 6.7 Of proveing of the tenor ... 6.8 Of transferrings ... 6.9 Of registratione ... 6.10 Of exoneratione ... 6.11 Of adjudicatione ... 6.12 De actione depositi ... 6.13 De actione indebiti ... 6.14 Of promisse ... 6.15 Of ejectione and intrusione ... 6.16 Of removeing ... 6.17 Of succeeding in the vice ... 6.18 Of spuilzie and wrongous intromission ... 6.19 Of maills and dewties and violent proffitts ... 6.20 Of manse and gleeb ... 6.21 Of perambulatioun and meithes and marches ... 6.22 Of warrandice ... 6.23 Of poynding of the ground ... 6.24 Of improbationes ... 6.25 Of reductions [{i}of decreets{/i}] ... 6.26 Of suspensiones [{i}including suspensions of double poynding{/i}] ... 6.27 Of horneing and escheites ... 6.28 Of poyndeing and appryseing ... 6.29 Of captione and imprisonment et cessione bonorum ... 6.30 Of declaratours and gifts ... 6.31 Of deforcement ... 6.32 Of molestatione ... 6.33 Of showeing of halding ... 6.34 Of letters conform ... 6.35 Of contraventione and lawburrowes ... 6.36 Of divorcement ... 6.37 Of arreists ... 6.38 De actionibus rescissoriis [{i}restitutio in integrum, reductions ex causa metus, and summonses of error and reductions of retours{/i}] ... 6.39 Of removing ... 6.40 De actionibus in factum et pro damno et interesse ... 6.41 Of exceptions ... 6.42 Of declinatours [{i}dilatours and peremptours, and exception of nullity{/i}] ... 6.43 Of prescriptione ... 6.44 Of compensatione.

7.1 De processu in causis civilibus ... 7.2 Of the summondis ... 7.3 Of the executione of the summondis ... 7.4 Of continuatione, dyet, table, and privileged causes ... 7.5 Of advocatts and procuratores ... 7.6 Of calling ane warrant ... 7.7 Of the order of proponeing exceptions ... 7.8 Of delayes ... 7.9 Of litiscontestatione ... 7.10 Of probation in generall ... 7.11 Of nottars and instruments ... 7.12 Of probatione be oath ... 7.13 Of probatione be witnesses ... 7.14 Of probatione be wreitt ... 7.15 Of incidents ... 7.16 Of the oath of calumnie ... 7.17 Of circumductione of the terme, and of the conclusione of the cause ... 7.18 Of the sentence definitive and interloquitors ... 7.19 Of the executione of the sentences.

8.1 Of criminall causes in generall ... 8.2 Of attachment and the executione of criminall letters ... 8.3 Of the accuser ... 8.4 Of the defender or partie accused ... 8.5 Of bluid ... 8.6 Of falsett ... 8.7 Of mutilatione ... 8.8 Of murther ... 8.9 Of perjurie ... 8.10 Of robberie and thift ... 8.11 Of raveshing of women ... 8.12 Of slaughter ... 8.13 Of assythement and remissiones ... 8.14 Of treasone and forfaultour ... 8.15 Of the assyse

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Author(s):

• Thomas Hope of Craighall

No. of pages: (item 1)

Incipit:

• Tit. 1, De jure quo utimur. The whole lawes of the Kingdome of Scotland wer written in Latin of old untill King James the I his tyme - custome being introduced be the pope and clergie that the laicks (who for the most part understood not the Latin toung) might be misled in the mist of ignorance; and the clergie might have the better occasion to prey upon them -, refingendo, evertendo, perfringendo leges, iisque abutendo ad suum quaestum et ambitionem: Reg. Maj.; Skene's preface.

  No judges within this realm hes pover to mak lawes bot the parliament allanerlie: Bal. Pr. Tit. 'of the law', c. 3. ITEM, the shereiffs, provests and baylies of burrowes should take the coppie of the acts of parliament from the clerk-register and publish them be open proclamation.

  [{i}Last words, in part 8, title 15 'Of the assyse':{/i}].

  In ane criminall persuit maid against Jealls Jhonstoune for witchcraft, the Justice receavit wittnes for proveing of the poynts of the dittay in face of the assyse; and, quhen it wes adleadgeat that the witnesses aucht to be examined outwith the presence of the partie, the judge proceided notwithstanding of the alleadgiance, and examined the wittnesses in face of judgement, and not only in presence of the partie, bot also in presence of the haill persones ther presentt: 2 March 1614.

  [{i}Greek letters:{/i}] Mono Theo Doxa. Sola salus servire Deo.

  [{i}The following three additional chapters are not present in Adv.MS.24.3.10, but they are contained in all the other copies:{/i}].

  p. 309 APPENDIX A.

  Of justices of the peace.

  (Out of the) Acts of Parliament. That the king's majestie shall give commission to honourable and worthy persons of honest fame and esteeme and no maintainers of evill nor oppression, and in degree earls, lords, barons, knights, and judiciall, landed, experimented in the lawes and customs of the realm: [1587 c 82].

  p. 309-312 APPENDIX B.

  Of the jurisdictione of burrows.

  There are three head courts yearly within burgh ... The baillies and magistrates of burrowes should put the act anent playing at cards and dice and horse-races to execution: 1621 c. 14 [A.P.S. iv 613].

  p. 312 APPENDIX C.

  Of ship-lawes and cocquets.

  (Out of the) Acts of Parliament. When ships are broken in this countrie, the ships and goods should be escheat to the king ... All merchants should give an inventar of their merchandice and goods to the conservator: 1597 c. 264