Contracts of excambion. Legal instruments.

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Scope Note: Concerning the transmission of heritable rights, this contract provided for the exchange of parts of the lands of the parties concerned, often in order to straighten a boundary. Source: Formulary of old Scots legal documents. (Edinburgh: Stair Society, 1985.).

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Contract of excambion between John, Lord Saltoun, Sir Walter Ogilvy of Findlater and Dame Margaret Stewart, Lady Saltoun, concerning teinds in Banffshire., 8 February 1604.

Item

Identifier: Ch.13156

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.

Dates: 8 February 1604.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers. / Early Saltoun documents. / Documents relating to the family of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun of Abernethy, and their various estates, especially Saltoun and Glencorse.

Decreet and contract of excambion between the 5th Duke of Roxburghe and the Minister of Roxburgh in respect of the land of the entailed estate of Roxburgh and of the glebe.

File

Identifier: Ch.2158-2159

Dates: 1820-1821.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Extract from contract of excambion between the Duke of Gordon and Lord Fife, describing the marches between their lands in Morayshire., 1808.

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Identifier: Ch.2493

Dates: 1808.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Formal documents from the General Sir George Brown papers.