Dispositions. Legal Instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scottish Law. A deed of conveyance, an assignation of property. Source: Concise Scots dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univeristy Press, 1987).
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.21
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume include:(i) Genealogical accounts in a variety of hands of a number of British peers, collected while Beatson was gathering material for his work on the English Peerage. (See also Adv.MSS.33.5.9-33.5.10). For another copy of the account of the family of Calder (folio 29), see MS.9982.(ii) An account, in Beatson`s hand, of the Parish of Dysart, his birthplace, undated (folio 57).(iii) Description of a Tour of Scotland made by...
Dates:
1785-1803, and undated.
Contract between George Mackenzie, Earl of Cromartie, and his son John, Lord Macleod, in which it is stated that, Lord Macleod having spent more than his allowance, the Earl agrees to pay his debts in order to save the estate.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5807
Scope and Contents
On the back of the document is a deposition by Mary, Lady Macleod, agreeing to the terms of the contract.
Dates:
1707.
Disposition and instrument of sasine of a tenement in Queensferry granted by William Napier, merchant, Queensferry, in favour of Gilbert Bunkele.
File
Identifier: Ch.5799-5800
Dates:
1731.
Disposition by John Douglas and William Lumsden, in favour of Alexander Leask, Minister of Cruden [later of Turriff], of the lands of Leask, Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2517
Dates:
1672.
Disposition by Sir Gilbert Elliot, Baronet [afterwards 1st Earl of Minto], to his wife Anna Maria.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2515
Dates:
1781.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7595-7610
Dates:
1741-1841.
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15393-15396
Dates:
1884-1888.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15248-15257
Dates:
1764-1877.
Fragment of a disposition by John Clerk, Younger of Penicuik, Baron of the Exchequer (later Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik), providing for his children in the event of his death.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.211
Dates:
Circa 1720.
Three legal documents, 1687-1760, relating to St Monance, Fife; and one, 1739, to Aberdeen.
Series
Identifier: Dep.334
Dates:
1687-1760.
Will of Thomas Ruddiman, being a holograph disposition in favour of his wife and children.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.21
Dates:
17 May 1736.