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 287 Collections and/or Records:
Extract of disposition, 27 November 1628, by Alexander Erskine of Dun, Mr John Lindsay minister of Aberlemno, and Captain Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford, to Robert Fletcher of Balinscho, of Rubelgrane and West Mains of Fenhevin. Registered, 4 September 1635., 27 November 1628.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14388
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
27 November 1628.
Extract of disposition, 30 April 1647, by Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer to Margaret Scott, Countess of Eglinton, of lands in Glencorse. Registered, 12 May 1647., 30 April 1647.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14484
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.
Dates:
30 April 1647.
Extract of disposition, 31 July, 27 August 1624, by James Inglis elder, James McMath, and John Inglis, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, to Mr Andrew Skene of Chapeltoun, of contract between them and James, Lord Ochiltree. Registered, 18 February 1629., 31 July, 27 August 1624.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13352
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
31 July, 27 August 1624.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
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Early Saltoun documents.
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Documents relating to Sir John Skene of Curriehill, Alexander Peirson, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Hay of Fosterseat, and William Kellie, W.S. Their claims were transferred to Forbes of Craigievar.
Extract registered probative, trust disposition and codicils, William Bertram, engineer, Preston, Prestonpans., 1856.
File
Identifier: Acc.5621/36
Dates:
1856.
Family of Saint Clair of Herdmanston, including William Saint Clair of Carfrae, and their lands: their apprizing, 1670, and disposition, 1683-1709, to Sir James Hay of Linplum., 1670, 1683-1709.
File
Identifier: Ch.11690-11829
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1670, 1683-1709.
Family papers of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1622-1658, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14476
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Genealogical account of the 1st Earl of Dunfermline's children, 1622 (folio 1);(ii) Account of the teinds of Denovan, Broomage and Lochlan belonging to the 2nd Earl of Linlithgow, 1622-1623, 1625 (folios 5);(iii) Financial papers, 1622-1627, including accounts, concerning Sir William Hay of Linplum (folio 5);(iv) Financial papers, 1626-1635, undated, concerning the 1st Earl of Seaforth (folio 17);(v)...
Dates:
1622-1658, undated.
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.
Fragment of a disposition by Robert Scott, merchant in Edinburgh, to Lt Harry Drummond., 1690.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9843/47
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Dates:
1690.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
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Formal and legal documents and papers relating to the Scott family.
General, Yester, and East Lothian estates., 1538-1726.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11498-11829
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1538-1726.
Heritable bond and disposition of John Carre to Elizabeth Monteith., 1736.
File
Identifier: Acc.6275/86
Dates:
1736.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
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Papers concerning the estates of Foxhall, containing titles, financial papers, and other related material.
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Financial papers of the estate of Foxhall.
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Bonds secured over the lands of Todshaugh, containing related papers, and receipts for fue duty payable to the crown.
Lauderdale affairs., 1632-1729.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11313-11440
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1632-1729.
Legal documents, containing dispositions, sasines, bonds and inventories., 1690-1832.
File
Identifier: Acc.7617/1
Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1);
(ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates:
1827-1913, undated.
Legal papers of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh., 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 1(1-8)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers concerning the collection of evidence for, and the prosecution of, the criminal case of the Douglas Cause in France., 1762-1765.
File
Identifier: MS.5354
Scope and Contents
The memorials, depositions, lists of witnesses, and other papers begin on folio 1.
The volume also contains (folio 117) memoranda giving details of French precedents for the criminal process, which show signs of having been prepared for publication.
Dates:
1762-1765.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Miscellaneous affairs., 1558-1680.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8597-8617
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.
Dates:
1558-1680.
Miscellaneous formal documents., 1800-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.7513
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1800-1858.
Miscellaneous judicial papers., 1599-1898, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25780
Note-book of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'Innes Papers, containing Genealogical and historical account with Pedigrees of various Innes branches, copies, Registers, inscriptions on Tombs and private remarks'., [?1850-?1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.626
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Dates:
[?1850-?1855.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
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Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow.
Opinions and answers of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, to memorials., 1738-1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.25
Scope and Contents
Contains copies of charters of the 15th century at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
1738-1746.