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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:
Papers concerning the accommodation of members of the Faculty of Advocates in the Courts.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.14
Dates:
1820-1821.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Auchinleck, Ayrshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6632
Scope and Contents
Including estate accounts, legal papers and correspondence.
Dates:
1856-1940.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.166- is now Acc.5074.
Dates:
1881-1882
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.5074
Dates:
1881-1882
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Wynne Baird.
File
Identifier: Acc.11411
Dates:
1835.
Papers concerning the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants employed by the North British Railway Company.
File
Identifier: Acc.4221
Scope and Contents
Concerning wages and conditions of service.
Dates:
1902-1906.
Papers concerning the estate and legal affairs of Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10418
Dates:
1800-1882.
Papers concerning the estate of Hoddam and to the Sharpe family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6551
Dates:
17th century to 19th century.
Papers concerning the family of Hay of Hayfield.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11899
Scope and Contents
Includes legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1610-circa 1853.
Papers concerning the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16435-16436
Dates:
Late 16th century-19th century.
Papers concerning the financial difficulties of the family of Hume of Graden.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6695
Dates:
1624-1747.
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.274-is now Acc.12804
Dates:
1495-1959.
Papers concerning the lands of Newtyle and Auchtertyre.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5569
Dates:
1518, 1614-1666.
Papers concerning the purchase by A and C Black of the Walter Scott copyrights and to subsequent operations connected with the "Waverley Property".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9855
Dates:
1847-1857.
Papers concerning the Skirving of Croys family, including Adam and Archibald.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10263
Dates:
circa 1780-1850.
Papers concerning the trust of Henry, Lord Cockburn.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3521
Scope and Contents
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
19th century.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates:
?17th century-18th century.
Papers extracted from a volume of miscellaneous documents formerly belonging to James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2050-2054
Scope and Contents
Some of the documents in the volume bear a note by Maidment to the effect that they come from the papers of James Anderson, W.S., the genealogist.
Dates:
1590, 1650-1670, 1722.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5410-5508
Scope and Contents
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1575-early19th century.
Papers from Pitfirrane House, Fife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6406-6511
Scope and Contents
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1517-1897.
Papers in action of multiple poinding, raised to determine the ownership of papers discovered at Fettercairn House, 1931.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6189
Dates:
1938.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.
Papers, including legal and financial documents, of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 1(1)-Box 4(17)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1594, 1672-1867, undated.
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12341
Dates:
1753-1759, 1809 and undated.