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:
Charters and formal documents from the papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1353-2335
Dates:
12th century-1798.
Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.13001-15207A
Scope and Contents
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
1161x1162-1902, undated.
Charters and formal documents of the family of Graham of Airth.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8947-8961
Dates:
1668-1818.
Charters and formal documents of the Livingstons, Earls of Linlithgow and Callendar.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8501-8890
Scope and Contents
Papers relate mainly to the properties of the Earls of Callendar in Stirlingshire, West Lothian, and Morayshire.
Dates:
1428-1702.
Charters and other formal documents from the Ellice Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.12601-12763
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1768-1873, undated.
Charters and other formal documents from the papers of the Mures of Caldwell.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2635-3799
Dates:
1475-1860.
Charters and other formal documents from the papers of the Spottiswoodes of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1492-1568
Scope and Contents
Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1454-1751.
Charters and other formal documents in the claim by Arthur Forbes 9th of Culloden (1841-1843) to the baronetcy of Foveran.
Series
Identifier: Ch.16731-16837
Scope and Contents
An inventory of the collection is available for consultation.
Dates:
1607-1835, undated.
Charters and other formal documents of and concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7713-8429
Dates:
1470-1846.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11339
Dates:
early 16th century to mid 19th century.
Charters and other papers of the family of Forbes of Culloden.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1642-2040
Dates:
1464-1788, undated.
Charters concerning the lands of Fawside near Tranent.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9261
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the family of Grant of Monymusk and Grant-Suthie of Balgonie.
With a letter, 1750, of Thomas Reid.
Dates:
17th century to 19th century.
Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9843/1-69
Scope and Contents
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Dates:
1614-1800.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1777-1908, undated.
Charters, writs and formal papers mainly concerning the Halketts of Pitfirrane and the Wedderburns of Gosford.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.6001-7360
Dates:
1230-1878.
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.1
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Collection of Icelandic laws and legal material.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.9
Dates:
18th century.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.8
Scope and Contents
There is a contents list on folio 1.The contents are as follows: (i) brief for the 9th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Abercorn (folio 1); (ii) brief for the 7th Earl of Galloway, 6th Earl of Stair, 13th Lord Somerville and 7th Lord Napier of Merchiston against a petition of the 4th Earl of Selkirk and the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (folio 18); (iii) brief for the same four peers as (ii) above relating to a point in a petition by the 7th Marquess of...
Dates:
?1785-1790.
Commentary on book four of a legal work, chiefly on actions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.10
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, ‘Codex’, and 'Novellae’ in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.8
Dates:
1602-1605.
‘Compend or breviarie of the most substantiall poynts relateing to the law, extracted forth of the bookes of that learned Jurisconsult D[ominus] T[homas] C[raig] relating upon the feudall law’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.14
Dates:
17th century.
Copies, 18th century, of various legal papers, 16th and 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.16
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.