| Custodial History | Inscription on first page "Ex libris Thomae Forbes Ed.[inburgh] 23 Juno 1662", and various other roughly contemporary inscriptions including the name "Helen Smith" and the words "Subscribitur M. Thomas Forbes Advocat". On the recto of the second sheet "Ex Libris Thomae Forbes [1702]", and on reverse "Ex Libris Henriet Forbes March sixth 1719 in Whitehaugh" |
| Description | Practick, or reference manual on Scots law.
The manuscript contains reference headings for areas of Scots law, with detailed notes. The first heading is "Of Com[m]issars" ; other headings include "Of the Chancellarie and of Breives and Retours", "Of arbiters and decreits arbitrall"; "Of the defender", "De actionibus civilibus", "Anent the escheit of persons excom[mun]icat", "Of poynding and appryssing", "Of caption Emprissonment and cessio Bonorum", "Of contravention and Lawborrows". Each heading followed by notes and references in Scots and Latin, in most cases with a subheading "Acts of parliament" and a subheading "pract. observat. pat[eatu]r" with jurisprudence. The cases cited are mainly of the late 16th and early 17th century (latest noted 1632). |