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Decisions. Judicial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Conclusions or resolutions reached after consideration by a judicial body.

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1692-1695, collected late 17th century, by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.14
Scope and Contents

A volume of Lord Fountainhall’s notes of decisions from 1 November 1692 to 28 February 1695. It is marked by the author ‘P.P’. At the beginning are Thomas Crawfurd’s notes on Buchanan.

At the end is ‘A judgement censure & opinion of sundrie books containing also a collection of some remarkable passages thereof – 1679 – an intimation of the Journal des Sçavans’ (57 pages) by Fountainhall.

Dates: 1692-1695.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected anonymously.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.5
Scope and Contents

The first two leaves seem to belong to the end.

Dates: 1606-1624.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, early 17th century, by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.11
Scope and Contents

‘Ane minute of some of the most notable decisions before the Lords of Session, 1610-1619’. A neat manuscript in a hand a little after the dates of the decisions.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.4.20).

Dates: 1610-1619.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, early eighteenth century, by Sir David Falconer, Lord Newton.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.10
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.5.24).

Dates: 1681-1686.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, late 17th century, by various persons.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.9
Scope and Contents

The volume contains: (i) Nisbet of Dirleton's decisions, 1666-1677; (ii) Newbyth's practiques, 1689-1690; (iii) Oliphant's practiques, 1664-1681; (iv) Acts and decreets of the High Commission for plantation of kirks, 1661-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.31).

Dates: 1660-1690.

Decisions of the Court of Session, titled, 'Abridgement of the Journal of the [Court of] Session or the Lords Decisions From June 1705 Inclusive to November 1708 exclusive. Observed and collected by William Forbes Advocate', probably belonging to Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet, Lord Minto., 1705-1708.

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Identifier: MS.11034
Scope and Contents From the Series: This section consists of the personal, political and official correspondence and papers of the Elliots of Minto up to and including the 3rd Baronet, but chiefly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), and of his son Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777). The former was Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and served as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763; the latter was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire, 1753-1765, and for Roxburghshire, 1765-1777, and served as Lord of the...
Dates: 1705-1708.