Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Practicks (digest of "Auld Lawis"), systematic in Scots, extracts .

Written by a hand of the 16th c., 276 x 198 mm. New numbering on the lower right corner

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No. of pages: Part 8, fol. 10r-29v

Rubric: The extract of the lawis of Regiam maiestatem

Incipit:

• The maner of pleys ar oather(?) of criminale actions, ar of civil. Of civil actions the pain is peccuniar, as the action of land or guds. Of criminale actions the payn is dede or demembring. Of criminale actions sum pertenis to the crovne, of other sum to the schireffs. To the crovne pertenis the crime of the hurting of the kings maieste, as of murthir, treson or diffaming of the king, his realme or of that oft the dissatefull hiding of a hurd, the breking of the kings pece.

  (Fol. 13r) Breve Mortancestri = item 26 in the Library's catalogue.

  (Fol. 13v-16v) Falsing of doomes = item 27 in the Library's catalogue.

  (Fol. 17r-19r) Out of King Dafids statutes = item 28 in the Library's catalogue.

  (Fol. 19v-22v) King Robert the Bross statutes = item 29 in the Library's catalogue.

  Furthermore Acts of Parliament under King James III = item 21 in the Library's catalogue.

  Acts of Parliament 1469 = item 22 in the Library's catalogue, printed in the Record edition, vol. II, 94-97

• The consuetuds of(?) (?)eis of the court ar thes persons folowing. In the first, the Justice sulde be vyse and sulde knaw al the lawis of the cuntre. Item the scherefe sulde be lele ande wyse. The coronars and seriands ar the (...?) of the court. Thai sulde be vyse, lele, scharp and active. ... to be previt be tua lele witnes, unsuspect, to quhame, quhar, quhen, agayne quhame ande how [{i}The second half of the page remained blank{/i}]