Claims. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: To demand what is due. Where a proprietor insists for what belongs to them against the person witholding it, they are said to make a claim. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'. 7th edition.
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Claim by John Carstairs against Alexander, Lord Saltoun., 2 December 1637.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13610
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
William Forbes of Many, afterwards of Craigievar, and his son Sir William, succeeded in acquiring all rights to Saltoun, which was ultimately sold, after being held briefly by Sir William Gray of Pittendrum and various relations of Forbes, to Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer.
Dates:
2 December 1637.
Claim by John Forbes of Balnagask against James, Lord Ochiltree., ?27 April 1625.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13485
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
?27 April 1625.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to Sir James Stewart of Killeith, later 4th Lord Ochiltree, who was the main claimant to Saltoun, and to his cautioners and creditors. He disposed of the estate to Forbes of Craigievar.
Claim by Sir Andrew Fletcher against Alexander, Lord Saltoun., 4 October 1643.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14471
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Dates:
4 October 1643.
Claim of James, Lord Somerville, to his title., 1723.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1816
Claim of Patrick Linton of Pendreich as to the thirlage of the Mill of Pendreich., 1727.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2389
Claims by Walter Scott Inglis, wine and spirit merchant, Edinburgh, 1897-1898, and others against the City of Edinburgh relating to property in Cockburn Street and Milne Square, Edinburgh, to be purchased under the North Bridge Improvement Act, 1894., 1894, 1897-1898.
File
Identifier: Acc.11812/189
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1894, 1897-1898.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
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Papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', relating to the premises of the business.
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Title papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Claims, inventories, and other papers relating to the bankruptcy of Constable & Company and of Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell respectively., 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.802
Claims of Dugald Lamont of Stilaig against Hector Bannatyne of Kames., 17 June 1698.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7518
Dates:
17 June 1698.
Claims of the Jacobite Lords Sempill to the title., 1727, 1734.
File
Identifier: Ch.2390-2391
Scope and Contents
The documents provide some information on the family.
Dates:
1727, 1734.
Collection of printed legal papers 1805-1820 (several of them bearing marginalia by John Riddell) and a few memoranda and copies of documents, 1819, and undated, relating to the genealogy of Major-General Walter Ker of Littledean in his claim to the Roxburghe estates following the death of the fourth Duke., 1805-1820, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1805-1820, and undated.
Collections of letters and papers relating to various peerages (mostly to claims thereto), arranged in alphabetical order of the peerage concerned., 1822-1859, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.28
Scope and Contents
A contents list has been provided (folio i).
Dates:
1822-1859, and undated.
Copy of ‘Claim ... of George [Pretyman Tolmine,] Lord Bishop of Winchester as nearest heir-male in general of Sir Thomas Pretyman of Greensfarme, Baronet of Nova Scotia’ (1823)., 1823.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.29
Scope and Contents
Press-cuttings relating to the Innes of Stow Succession Case are pasted to leaves bound in at the end of the volume.
Dates:
1823.
Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the parish of Ashkirk., 1627-1891.
File
Identifier: MS.13326
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1627-1891.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the recovery of missing books.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/44
Dates:
1915.
Correspondence, chiefly between John Riddell and William Mackenzie of Muirton, Writer to the Signet, and papers, including opinions by Riddell, transcripts of documents and printed session papers in the claim to the Earldom of Buchan by Sir Colin Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, of Kilcoy., 1839-1844, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1839-1844, and undated.
Documents, circa 1627, ?1656, relating to James, 1st Lord Carmichael, and papers in claims to the Earldom of Hyndford by Major-General Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Baronet, 1817-1818, and undated (folios 12-86), and by his son Sir James R Carmichael, 2nd Baronet, 1846, and undated (folios 87-192)., Circa 1627, ?1656, 1817-1818, 1846, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
Circa 1627, ?1656, 1817-1818, 1846, and undated.
Documents, including bonds and discharges, mainly relating to John Skeyne of Halyards., 1636-1704.
File
Identifier: Acc.12092/9
Scope and Contents
Contains:256. Exchequer receipt to Mr John Skene for the fueduty of the lands and barony of Halzairdis, July 1636,
257. Contract of wodset at Bowdoun 20 December 1639 between Robert Ker called of Mersingtoune, portioner of Bowdoun and Archibald Ruther notary public whereby for £40 Scots Robert Ker wadsets certain lands in Bowdoun to the said Archibald. Witnesses: Adam Hoge servitor to James Wallace, smith in Bowdoun and Nicoll Rem[ield]sone, eldest son to William Rem[ield]sone,...
Dates:
1636-1704.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
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Papers of the Skene family and related families.
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Early papers of the Skene family, including charters, sasines, marriage contracts and related legal instruments.
Drafts of the supplemental case of Robert Barclay Allardice claiming the title of Earl of Airth, and other papers with a copy of the claim made by Sir William Scott of Ancrum, 1838., 1835-1839, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.1a, folios 27-223
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1835-1839, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Airth by Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury and Allardice (died 1854).
Early 19th-century copies of late 18th-century papers in the unsuccessful claim to the Earldom of Dunbar by Sir John Home of Renton, and seven letters, 1820-1822, of James Home concerning his own claim thereto., Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
Executry papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Agnes., 1776-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.11173
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1776-1806.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
John Riddell`s copy of ‘Report of Proceedings on the claim to the Barony of L`Isle’ by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (London, 1829), containing a few marginal notes in his hand., 1829.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.30
Scope and Contents
Tipped in after page 436 is a letter, 1838, of Alexander Sinclair to Riddell.
Dates:
1829.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1741.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process between John Fairholm of Craigiehall and George Dundas of Dundas concerning the building of a seat in Dalmeny kirk, 1655-1660 (folio 1).(ii) Process at the instance of Jean Dundas of Dundas against George Dundas of Dundas concerning her jointure, 1687-1697, preceded by a typed list of documents (for the final item of which see Adv.MS.80.3.50) (folio 30).(iii) Minutes concerning action by George Wilson...
Dates:
1655-1741.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1758-1785.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of George Dundas of Dundas against Thomas Dundas, elder and younger of Fingask, concerning their respective claims to the headship of the family of Dundas, 1758-1762 (folio 1).(ii) Decreet and account concerning action by James Dundas of Dundas against David Parker in Queensferry, 1762 (folio 92).(iii) Process of Dundas trustees against Margaret Dundas in Craigbrae, 1775-1785 (folio 96).(iv)...
Dates:
1758-1785.
Legal papers relating to the estates of Lochgelly and Melgund., 1696-1748.
File
Identifier: MS.13281
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers in the claims of Agnes Murray Kynynmound against her mother, l742-1746, chiefly relating to household plenishing, and to money for education and clothing (folio 1);
(ii) Legal accounts of Harie Dow, 1696-1705 (folio 76), Hugh Somervell of Invertiel, Writer to the Signet, 1700-1731 (folio 96), Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, 1713-1735 (folio 107), Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, 1728-1748 (folio 132), and miscellaneous, 1679-1748 (folio...
Dates:
1696-1748.
Letters, 1825-1836, 1843, and undated (folios 1-60), and legal papers, including transcripts of documents (folios 61-249), in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander., 1825-1843, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1825-1843, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander (formerly Humphreys).