Manuscript legal texts, 1619

This manuscript legal book, soft bound in vellum, contains some 600 pages of manuscript text. The first six folios are in a different hand from the rest of the volume. The main section of the text comprises notes in Latin, law French and English on legal cases involving a variety of aspects of the law. These include aspects of property law (e.g. leases, bargain and sales) and manorial law (e.g. gavelkind, fealty). In each section, references to relevant legislation or precedents are added in the margins. An index at the back of the volume lists legal subjects and provides definitions and folio numbers. The first folio of the volume records the date 1619 at the top. Medieval vellum fragments in Latin, apparently from court records concerning forest jurisdiction, have been used in the binding.

At least two hands were involved in the creation of this volume of legal notes, but the identity of the writers is not given. The work seems to have been compiled in England in the early 17th century by somebody engaged in the study or practice of law. It seems to have formed part of a library and bears the number '44' on its vellum spine.

No archival arrangement has been necessary.

ACCESS: Accessible to all registered readers.

LANGUAGE: Latin, English

This description is the only finding aid available for the collection. Copyright in the description belongs to The University of Nottingham.

REPROGRAPHIC: Reprographic copies can be supplied for educational use and private study purposes only, depending on access status and the condition of the documents.

COPYRIGHT: Permission to make published use of the volume must be sought in advance in writing from the Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections (email mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk). The Department will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Details of the provenance or acquisition by The University of Nottingham's Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections of this volume are not certain, but it seems to have formed part of the library collections by 1948.