Laws. Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents stating rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and having binding legal force.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
'Abstract of the Laws and Regulations ... and of the rules and orders ... from 1764 to 1778. Extracted from the Records & Sederunt Book of the Society', with subsequent laws, 1778-1781, rolls, etc., 1781, and later additions., 1764-1781.
File
Identifier: MS.2000
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From the Sub-Series:
With these papers were some of David Herd (see MSS.1924-1928).
Dates:
1764-1781.
"Deemster John Parr's Abstract of the Laws of the Isle of Mann"., [1744, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.3176
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The work is preceded by a dedication to Robert Heywood, Governor of the Isle of Man, and 'The supposed true cronicle of the Isle of Mann, coppied out of the originall'. It is written on paper watermarked 1744.
Dates:
[1744, or after.]
Early 14th-century manuscript containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digesta' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius., 1310-1320.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.4 (ii)
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Manuscript containing Books 39-50 of the 'Digestum Novum' of Justinian accompanied by the standard gloss of Accursius. There is a list of the rubrics and titles of the Books on folio 375v.The manuscript was probably written and illuminated in France. Dolezalek suggests France as the place of production, rather than Italy, due to the formation of quires in seniones and the style of the illumination. Dolezalek has dated the manuscript to the 14th century, or possibly the 15th. Art...
Dates:
1310-1320.
Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Volumen' and 'Liber Feudorum' of Justinian, with the 'Glossa Ordinaria' of Accursius, and some miniatures of Andrea da Bologna., 1330 - 1335.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.4 (i)
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Manuscript containing the 'Volumen' of Justianian, as well as the 'Liber Feudorum', a work which is not normally included with the compilation of the 'Volumen'. The work is accompanied by the standard gloss of Accursius. Some of the illuminations have been attributed to Andrea da Bologna.The manuscript was written and illuminated in Italy, probably Bologna. Dolezalek has dated the manuscript to the first half of the 14th century. This view has been supported by art historians who...
Dates:
1330 - 1335.
LISC(S) By-laws regulations., 1979-1984.
File
Identifier: Acc.13657/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
LISC(S) committee meetings, minutes, regulations and constitution.
Dates:
1979-1984.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie., [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16497
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written about 1500. Section xxii is an addition of the mid-sixteenth century.The scribe gives his initials D (or David) de B in explicits on folios 14, 52, and 57, and writes his name out 'David Baldovy' on a stub after folio 202.The contents are as follows:
(i) 'Ad componendum cartas'. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Exceptiones contra cartam. (Folio 1 verso.)(iii) 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. (Folio 2.)(iv) 'Regiam...
Dates:
[Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Minute-book of the chapmen of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan., 1726-1816.
Item
Identifier: MS.197
Scope and Contents
The minute book includes: ‘The Laws and Acts of the Fraternity of Chapmen in Stirling Shire’, 1726 (folio 28); the minute of ’incorporation’, ‘having obtained the concurrence of the magistrates of Stirling and of the Justices of the Peace of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan upon parchment’ (folio 30); election of officials; admission of new members; occasional statement of accounts. On 20 September 1800, the Society resolved to convert itself into ‘The Chapmen Friendly Society of...
Dates:
1726-1816.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, volume I., 1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, volume II., 1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, volume III., 1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(iii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Notes of the lectures on Scots law delivered by David Hume, Professor of Scots law at Edinburgh, volume IV., 1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.10(iv)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apparently intended by the annotator as transcripts for publication.
Dates:
1822.
Papers concerning police and law and order in Roxburghshire., [Circa 1713]-1876.
File
Identifier: MS.13400
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
[Circa 1713]-1876.
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.1
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.2
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.3
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’., [Circa 1626.]
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Identifier: Adv.MS.37.1.4