The first leaf of the treatise, along with most of the second and third and some others have been lost. The text is arranged in 85 tituli. No cases later than the 1630s appear to be cited. This is followed (folio 94) by a selection from Haddington's ‘Practicks’ and by some extra, un-numbered tituli. Loosely inserted (folios 105-106) is a copy of an act concerning the highway through Inveresk.