Briefs. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Concise statements of the arguments of a party to a case in dispute, submitted to the court or other body hearing the case.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Copies, on paper watermarked 1811, of an opinion on the descent of and right to the title of the Earl of Moray, 1785 (folio 1), a brief for William, Lord Belhaven, claiming the rights to vote as a Scots Representative Peer in the election of 1790 (folio 29), notes on the claim of Andrew John Drummond to the viscountcy of Strathallan, ?1790 (folio 37), and the case of Francis, Lord Napier, concerning the election of 1790 (folio 43)., 1785, 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1785, 1790.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, mostly containing printed material, some press cuttings and photographs., 1821-1978, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/82-102
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.
Dates:
1821-1978, undated.
Printed papers of the family of Erskine of Alva including statements by parties in legal cases, some parliamentary papers, and letters and instructions of the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving the Fisheries and Manufactures of Scotland., 1592-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5128
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
1592-1825, undated.