I have a strange issue where I have jquery 1.12.4 (have tried 1.11.1 as well) with validate and if I load jquery.js then validate.js - it does not work (it continues the form against rules and no error message is displayed).

If I load validate.js then jquery.js it does work but jquery errors and no other jquery functions are working. 

This is very strange. I have removed all other .js includes. 

Thanks in advance for your help!