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Digests. Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Systematically arranged summaries of laws, reported cases, decisions, and other legal documents.

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Digest of, and notes on, the books of the civil law, compiled by and in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope., 1602-1605.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.8
Scope and Contents

The manuscript has, on the opening folio, an inscription by the author, ‘Indices, seu paratitla, titulorum et legum in digestis repertorum non ad amussim sed rudius ad meam privatum gratiam, continuata et collecta’.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.6.8).

Dates: 1602-1605.

'Digest of the Regulations and Laws, Enacted by the Governor General in Council for the Civil Government of the Territories under the Presidencey of Bengal, Arranged in Alphabetical Order' (Calcutta, 1807), supplement, by James Edward Colebrooke., 1807.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11634
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: 1807.

'Digest of the Regulations and Laws, Enacted by the Governor General in Council for the Civil Government of the Territories under the Presidencey of Bengal, Arranged in Alphabetical Order' (Calcutta, 1807), volume i, by James Edward Colebrooke., 1807.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11632
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: 1807.

'Digest of the Regulations and Laws, Enacted by the Governor General in Council for the Civil Government of the Territories under the Presidencey of Bengal, Arranged in Alphabetical Order' (Calcutta, 1807), volume ii, by James Edward Colebrooke., 1807.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11633
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: 1807.

'Digest of the Regulations and Laws, Enacted by the Governor General in Council for the Civil Government of the Territories under the Presidencey of Bengal, Arranged in Alphabetical Order' (Calcutta, 1807), volumes i-ii and Supplement, by James Edward Colebrooke., 1807.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11632-11634
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: 1807.

Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh laws, `Quoniam attachiamenta`, and `De judicibus`, written by Alexander Foulis in 1454; the last two items have been completed and other statutes, etc., added by a later hand.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Fragment of chapters in a later hand (folio 1).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 108, and 58 chapters (parts 1 and 2 are numbered continuously) with table at the beginning (folio 2). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) `Assisa Regis David` in 46 chapters (modern numbering) (folio 30 verso). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 3-13.(iv) `Statuta regis...
Dates: 1209-late 16th century.

Three sets of alphabetical practiques, one entitled "Ane Epitome of Durie`s Practiqs...by Sir John Nisbet..."

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7215
Scope and Contents

All cover the 1620s and 1630s and are apparently unrecorded.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.