Instruments of sasine. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scottish law. The deed or document recording the transfer of property. Source: Concise Scottish Dictionary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987).
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15439-15440
Scope and Contents
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Dates:
1680-1871.
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.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Instrument of sasine.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12596
Scope and Contents
By George Douglas as deputy for William Douglas of Cavers, Sheriff of Roxburghshire, in favour of William Cranstoun of Cranstoun of lands of Smaiholm, Nether Crailing and Lanton, and of the office of Coroner of Roxburgh.
Dates:
26 November 1499.
Instrument of sasine following on charter and precept by Robert [Stewart], Commendator of Holyrood [later Earl of Orkney], in favour of John Bellenden of Pittendreich, of lands within the regality of Broughton and sheriffdom of Peebles.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5900
Dates:
1567.
Instrument of sasine in favour of George Bruce in Culross of the coal, etc, on the Moor of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2055
Dates:
1600.
Instrument of Sasine in favour of Laurence Oliphant, Lord Oliphant, and his wife, of the lands of Dunbarny, Pitcaithly and Bynzaine, upon his own resignation.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.39
Dates:
1526.
Instrument of sasine in favour of Patrick Ogilvy of Muirtown, son of the 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, and his wife, Isabella Murray, of the lands of Smyddiehill.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.217
Dates:
1601.
Instrument of sasine of a third part of the lands of Kirkton of Blair, proceeding on a feu charter by Patrick, Bishop of Moray, as Commendator of Scone, in favour of David Nairne.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1487
Dates:
1500.
Miscellaneous legal and genealogical documents.
File
Identifier: Ch.12764-12766
Dates:
1755, 1809, undated.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Sasine on the lands of Dounreay, in favour of Jean Stewart, wife of Sir James Sinclair of Murkle.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1463
Dates:
1693.
Selkirk Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7611-7636
Scope and Contents
A collection of formal documents, mostly instruments of sasine and charters concerning properties in the town of Selkirk.
Dates:
1519-1696.