Decisions. Judicial records.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Admirall decisions.
The manuscript comprises:
(i) `Decisions of the Lords of Session in Maritime cases ordine Alphabetico. [1662-1684].` (folios 4-19);
(ii) `Ane abbreviat of the Registers of the High Court of Admirality [of Scotland], 1613[-1673].` (folios 20-104)
Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.
The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
Collection, 17th century, of decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), circa 1620-1640.
Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.
Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);
(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Copies, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’, 'Major Practicks', and commentary on Justinian, 'Digest', 'Codex' and 'Novellae'.
Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages;
(ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).
Copy, 17th century, of “Lord Chancellor’s Practicks” (possibly by Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline.
A volume with ‘General Index’ on the fly leaf, then:
(i) Lord Chancellor’s Practiques (pages 1-72);
(ii) Sinclair’s Practiques (pages 72-235);
(iii) Maitland’s Practiques (page 237).
(iv) Colvill's Practiques (page 635);
(v) Haddington's Practiques.
A descriptive note of the contents of the book, written in a later hand, is fixed on the first fly leaf.
Copy, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope's ‘Minor practicks’, followed by a list of chapters., 17th century.
Copy, 17th century, or Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Copy, early 19th century, of decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1673-1677, refuted by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.
Copy, late 17th century, of decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1673-1677, refuted by Sir Patrick Home of Renton.
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Copy, late 17th century to 18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Minor Practicks’ by Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie.
A collection of decisions and law notes.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.20).
Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno, ‘Practicks’.
Imperfect at the end.
Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, ‘Major Practicks’., 1st half of 17th century.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.8).
Copy, mid-17th century-18th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 'Minor Practicks', and commentary on Justinian, 'Digest', 'Codex' and 'Novellae'., 1st half of 17th century.
Also contains paraphrases of Justinian (Digest, Codex, Novellae), and other works.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.7).
Copy of decreet arbitral and decisions of the Court of Session (practicks).
Copy of Sir Thomas Hope's 'Minor practicks', and decisions of the Court of Session.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Sir Thomas Hope’s 'Minor practicks';
(ii) Practiques observed before the Lords of Session collected from 1660-1666 by Sir George Lockhart;
(iii) Newbyth’s decisions.
Copy of Sir Thomas Hope's 'Minor Practicks', criminal proceedings, and reports of decisions of the Court of Session.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Copy of the decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1681-1684, collected, late 17th century, by Sir Patrick Home of Renton, volume I., 1681-1684.
This is an older copy of Adv.MS.24.3.4 containing volumes I and II.