Marriage law -- Scotland

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Contract of marriage between 'said Joseph Monat of falsyde on the ane pairt and Janet Lylle daughter to umquhile William Lylle of Bassenden" 1663

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Papers of John Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Divinity, including: lectures and notes on divinity, biblical criticism, rhetoric and sermon writing, ecclesiastical history, and metaphysics and moral philosophy (pencil note: "[illegible] he seems to have taken Prof Wilson's course); "fragments of lectures, sermons, and prayers"; and "pamphlets, letters and miscellaneous papers relating to the Marriage Affinity Bill 1850".

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This section contains the Quoddam notabile de Maritagio, a law treatise about marriage. In this manuscript, this title appears on f. 63v, and the text starts on f. 64r. It has 39 titles, and ends on f. 70r with the words circa octava Pasche. Explicit.

Writing

This section is written in the same hand as most of the rest of the manuscript.

Scope and Contents This is a volume entitled "Notes of Hume's Lecture's", containing manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh. Dated 1811, taken down by an unknown student.Headings include: "Introduction" (ff. 1-9), "Of marriage" (ff. 9-70), "Relation between Parent & Child" (ff. 70-101), "Of Relation between Minors and their Tutors and Curators" (ff. 102-157, including a section on "Curators to...