Digests. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Systematically arranged summaries of laws, reported cases, decisions, and other legal documents.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Digests of the books of the civil law, compiled by and in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.6.2.8-6.2.9
Dates:
1602-1605.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh laws, `Quoniam attachiamenta`, and `De judicibus`, written by Alexander Foulis in 1454; the last two items have been completed and other statutes, etc., added by a later hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Fragment of chapters in a later hand (folio 1).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 108, and 58 chapters (parts 1 and 2 are numbered continuously) with table at the beginning (folio 2). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) `Assisa Regis David` in 46 chapters (modern numbering) (folio 30 verso). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 3-13.(iv) `Statuta regis...
Dates:
1209-late 16th century.
‘Tables to chancery reports’, a digest of cases in the Court of Chancery of England.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.2.1(i)-(ii)
Dates:
18th century.
Three sets of alphabetical practiques, one entitled "Ane Epitome of Durie`s Practiqs...by Sir John Nisbet..."
Item
Identifier: Acc.7215
Scope and Contents
All cover the 1620s and 1630s and are apparently unrecorded.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.