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Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ written apparently in or about 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or about 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written apparently in or shortly after 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in an unidentified hand apparently in or about 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1666.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Laws of Scotland’, written apparently in a number of hands.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence and papers of the Murrays of Stanhope.
Documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
The collection includes documents, 1694-1695, concerning the recruiting of troops in Lanarkshire (folio 14), statements, 1694, used in a lawsuit between members of the Forrest family of Braidwood over a question of thirlage (folio 9), and other legal, family, and parish papers.
Extracts from published sources and some notes and other writings compiled by John Young, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786).
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.
Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.
Icelandic and Danish legal and antiquarian miscellany.
Icelandic law of public assemblies, compiled by Thorsteinn Magnússon, and other legal papers.
‘Jus feudale’ and ‘Tractatus in libros de feudis’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.2.17).
‘Jus feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
A copy of 'Jus feudale' without the tractatus. At the end is an imperfect index of matters.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.24).
Legal and financial papers of the Campbell family of Calder.
Most of the papers concern the affairs of John Campbell, when he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Hugh Campbell, to the estate of Calder in 1716. Others concern his estate in Islay, the factor of which was James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Legal manuscript, 4 November 1609 to 12 December 1623, containing abstract decisions of the Court of Session, Edinburgh.
With other legal notes, early 17th century.