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Laws. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents stating rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates: 14th century-early 17th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie., [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.

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Identifier: MS.16497
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written about 1500. Section xxii is an addition of the mid-sixteenth century.The scribe gives his initials D (or David) de B in explicits on folios 14, 52, and 57, and writes his name out 'David Baldovy' on a stub after folio 202.The contents are as follows: (i) 'Ad componendum cartas'. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Exceptiones contra cartam. (Folio 1 verso.)(iii) 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. (Folio 2.)(iv) 'Regiam...
Dates: [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates: 14th century-16th century.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates: 1248-15th century.

Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.

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Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows. (i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.) (ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates: 2nd half of 14th century-15th century.

Microfilm of early 14th century manuscripts containing works of Justinian.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.176
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Early 14th-century manuscript, 1330-1335, containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (i));

Early 14th-century manuscript, 1310-1320 containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius (Adv.MS.10.1.4 (ii)).

Dates: 1310-1335.

Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem'.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1092
Dates: 3rd quarter of 15th century.

Microfilm of "Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.232
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...
Dates: 1764-1779.

Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);

Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).

Dates: 15th century-16th century.

Minute-book of the chapmen of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan., 1726-1816.

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Identifier: MS.197
Scope and Contents The minute book includes: ‘The Laws and Acts of the Fraternity of Chapmen in Stirling Shire’, 1726 (folio 28); the minute of ’incorporation’, ‘having obtained the concurrence of the magistrates of Stirling and of the Justices of the Peace of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan upon parchment’ (folio 30); election of officials; admission of new members; occasional statement of accounts. On 20 September 1800, the Society resolved to convert itself into ‘The Chapmen Friendly Society of...
Dates: 1726-1816.

Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.6.10(i)-(iv)
Scope and Contents

Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.

Dates: 1822.