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 5 Collections and/or Records:
Arguments of the judges in the Court of Exchequer in the Bankers’ case, 23rd June 1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.13
Dates:
1691-1696.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.8
Scope and Contents
There is a contents list on folio 1.The contents are as follows: (i) brief for the 9th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Abercorn (folio 1); (ii) brief for the 7th Earl of Galloway, 6th Earl of Stair, 13th Lord Somerville and 7th Lord Napier of Merchiston against a petition of the 4th Earl of Selkirk and the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (folio 18); (iii) brief for the same four peers as (ii) above relating to a point in a petition by the 7th Marquess of...
Dates:
?1785-1790.
Papers and report of judgement in a dispute between the College of Justice and the town of Edinburgh, concerning exemption from taxes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.2
Dates:
1687.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Several arguments of all the twelve judges of England in the Court of Exchequer concerning the case of ship money.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.1
Dates:
1638.