Legal documents.
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Justiciary Court of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Papers of the Rutherfurd family of Edgerston.
Including deeds and legal and financial papers, with some correspondence.
Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.
Comprising:
1. two minute books, 1923-1949
2. sederunt book, 1932-1949
3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates relating to the management of the Estates and the personal and business affairs of the Sutherland family.
Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.
Papers of William McAdam found in Ballochmorrie House, Ayrshire.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
Papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet.
Papers relating to the death from disease of Staff Surgeon David Anderson, at Scutari, during the Crimean War.
Papers relating to the dispute between the College of Justice and the magistrates of Edinburgh, concerning the cleansing of the streets of Edinburgh.
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
Photocopies of documents concerning the trial of six bakers of the Canongate for supplying bread to the Jacobite army.
Photocopies of papers concerning the Omay family.
Comprising:
1. Paper, 1750, in a case between Duncan Omay of Kilchumkill and the 3rd Duke of Argyll
2. Letter and account, 1801, of John Forbes to Messrs Moddy and Omay, concerning collection of debts of a Scottish business in the United States
3. Letter, 1813, of Hector Macneill to Samuel Omay
4. 19 letters, 1813-1836, of John Galt to Samuel Omay.
Photocopy of the first page of the indictment at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, inscribed with the signatures of the prosecuting counsel.
Photographs and translations of documents concerning the trial of George Buchanan by the Inquisition at Lisbon.
Photographs of five documents connected with the imprisonment, trial, sentence and release of George Buchanan by the Inquisition in Portugal, 16 August 1550 to 28th February 1552, with descriptive notes (typewritten) by Guthrie.
Photographs of the will of James Balfour, and a valuation of his property.
"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".
Contains:
1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"
2 "Practickes re Land", 1666
3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.
Precept of dare constat by William Ker in favour of John Shiel.
Concerning lands of Kirknowe, Roxburghshire.
Precept of horning in favour of Thomas Stevenson and others, against John Stirling and others.
Printed copy of Justinius, "Institutes" (1678), with manuscript annotations.
Printed papers and manuscript notes by Lord Shand concerning the Free Church Appeal Case in the House of Lords.
The contents consist of Lord Shand’s copy of the House of Lords papers in the Free Church appeal case (The general assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and others v the Right Honourable John Campbell, Lord Overtoun and others), 1904, with his Lordships manuscript notes and the printed draft judgements of Lords Davey, Robertson, and Lindley.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.