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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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QUONIAM ATTACHIAMENTA, n.comb. the name given, from its opening words, to an ancient work of Scots Law, purporting to belong to the reign of David I but now ascribed to the second half of the 14th c., which deals chiefly with the legal procedure of that period with some earlier matter included. Hist.Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. i. 13:
These are the Laws of King Malcolm II. Regiam Majestatem, Quoniam Attachiamenta, and other old Pieces of our Law, which, being originally conceived in Latine, were, by Order of King James VI. translated and published in the Scottish Language by Sir John Skene of Curriehill Clerk Register.Sc. 1774 Erskine Institute i. i. § 36:
The authenticity of the borough laws, and of the Assisa Regis Davidis . . . have never been called in question; so that these must have had, when they were first enacted, the authority of law. The remaining tracts in that collection were either written by private hands, as Quoniam attachiamenta, Iter camerarii, etc., or by magistrates of boroughs . . . and therefore have had at no time any proper authority.Sc. 1861 C. Innes Sk. Early Sc. Hist. 97:
We find in our ancient statutes allusions to the reservation of the Galwegian customary laws: but nearly all we can gather of their peculiar nature is drawn from a passage in the treatise of Quoniam attachiamenta.Sc. 1958 Intro. Sc. Legal Hist. (Stair Soc.) 7:
Quoniam Attachiamenta belongs to the latter part of the 14th century . . . It is a systematic handbook of procedure in the Scottish feudal courts, written by an experienced practitioner; . . . the book may be accepted as a guide to the practice, and in certain respects to the substantive law, which prevailed towards the close of the Scoto-Norman period.