Legal documents.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of papers of the Barony Court of Faskally concerning the Robertsons of Faskally, clients of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1089
Dates:
[1662-1743.]
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, 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 (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilms of the business, financial and legal correspondence and papers of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, merchant in Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15525-15526 [Mf.MSS.49-50]
Dates:
1694-1722.
Minutes, reports and financial papers of Theatre Workshop Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13521
Dates:
c. 1970-1999.
Miscellaneous charters relating to the Chalmers of Auldbar.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12774-12818E
Scope and Contents
As well as charters relating to the Chalmers family itself, there are other items which are apparently unrelated but which came with the bulk of the papers. Only one document (Ch.12806) is of 15th century date, and only one (Ch.12776) is of the 16th century. The rest of the collection dates largely from the 17th and 18th centuries. A detailed list is available.
Dates:
1147, 1425-1840.
Miscellaneous deeds from a collection of papers relating chiefly to Angus.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2056-2058
Dates:
1665-1677.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.
Miscellaneous documents from the Lauriston Castle Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.3-12
Dates:
15th century-1773.
Miscellaneous formal documents, and blueprints of engineering drawings of, and concerning, J S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15513-15521
Dates:
1860-1936.
Miscellaneous formal documents from the papers of the Crawfurd families of Kilbirnie and Jordanhill.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17332-17350
Scope and Contents
They include (Ch.17332) copies of two deeds in favour of Paisley Abbey, which may be a leaf from a lost 15th-century chartulary of the Abbey.
Dates:
1319-1734.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to James Skene of Rubislaw.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15501-15507
Dates:
1619-1843, undated.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Keith family, Aberdeen.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17325-17331
Dates:
1469-1732.
Miscellaneous legal and financial papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2586-2592
Dates:
1579, 1663-1701, 1834.
Miscellaneous legal documents and legal instruments.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.14-18
Dates:
1457-1761.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/23(i)-F.R.339r23(iii)
Dates:
1649-1793.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/25
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/13
Dates:
19th century.