Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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:
Transcript, early-mid twentieth century, of Habbakkuk Bisset’s ‘Rolment of Courtis’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.1.1-37.1.4
Dates:
[Circa 1626.]
Transcripts, 18th century, of papers concerning the proceedings at York and Westminster, 1568-1569, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots, and the "casket letters".
File
Identifier: Acc.5872
Dates:
1568-1799.
Transcripts from Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, notes on session papers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.5.10-24.5.13
Dates:
1740-1749.
‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Tutor record book of Sir John Lockhart, Lord Castlehill, as tutor to George Lockhart of Carnwath. With extracts from Alexander Penicuik`s `Description of Tweeddale, 1715.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13659
Dates:
1690-1693, 1715.
Two Books of Hours, one English, 15th century, and one French, 15th to 16th century; with three volumes, 17th century, concerning law and heraldry.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9281/1-5
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Two documents concerning members of the family of Wright of Loss.
File
Identifier: Acc.4561
Dates:
1755, 1804.
Two documents recording matrimonial and baptismal dates concerning the Wilson family, Alford.
File
Identifier: Acc.7759
Dates:
1781.
Two incomplete manuscript copies, both in the same hand, of the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.7.8-9
Dates:
18th century.
Two leases, signed by Douglas, Earl Haig, pertaining to his tenancy of Eastcott, Kingston Hill, Surrey.
File
Identifier: Acc.10405
Dates:
1917-1923.
Two ledgers, 1872-1928, of the Marriage Contract Trustees of Thomas A Gibson Thomson and Jean Margaret Alan Stevenson, later Denton.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11063
Scope and Contents
Includes six unrelated ledgers concerning trusts and executries.
Dates:
late 19th century to early 20th century.
Two legal manuscripts formerly in the collection of Robert Riddle of Glenriddle.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.13 (1-2)
Dates:
1621-1630.
Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.14
Scope and Contents
The first part, sections (i)-(xv), contains the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, written by G H about the middle of the 15th century; the second, sections (xvii)-(xxi), contains the burgh laws, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, in Scots, written at the same period. Sections (xxii)-(xxiii) are a slightly later addition. Section (xvi) is an 18th-century copy.(i) `Leges et consuetudines quatuor...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Valuations of parishes in Perthshire.
File
Identifier: MS.9841
Scope and Contents
The parishes are listed under presbyteries. On folio 25 is a list of 'weeklie stent of excise on ilk paroch in perthshyre', followed by a summary of the valuations. The first page is missing. A later note in shorthand on the inside of the front cover is dated 7 April 1696.
Dates:
17th century.
Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.8
Scope and Contents
A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.
Dates:
1746, 1798-1824.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.