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:
Correspondence and papers of A H E L Holt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8756
Scope and Contents
Concerning chiefly Holt`s work as a railway engineer in Iraq, 1916-1932 and undated, and as a soil consultant in Sudan, 1952-1958.
Also includes:
papers and notebooks, 1884-1929 and undated, of his father-in-law, the Reverend E M Macphail
papers, 1880-1907 and undated, concerning the claim by Stewart Soutar Johnstone to the Marquesate of Annandale.
Dates:
1880-1958 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Dates:
1792-mid 20th century.
Correspondence and papers of Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, governor of Dominica and MP for Grampound, chiefly concerning his financial and legal affairs.
File
Identifier: MS.9049
Scope and Contents
Andrew Cochrane Johnstone was involved in various speculative and fraudulent activities, and, on his expulsion from Parliament in 1814, he returned to the West Indies. Many of the papers concern lawsuits arising from the sale of his sugar and coffee estates in Dominica, and his attempts to transport chattel slaves from Dominica to Demerara. There are also letters concerning the shipping of wool and sheep from Spain to North America, 1810-1812, and his claims for money against the British and...
Dates:
1804-1832.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15001-15195
Scope and Contents
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1757-1934, undated.
Correspondence and papers of George, Robert and Thomas Gibson, cattle and sheep breeders in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10326-10328
Dates:
1816-1892.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(I)-(VIII)
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Dates:
1680-1728.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches, including some of his wife Flora, son Lionel, and other members of the Daiches family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-61
Dates:
Circa 1880-?2003.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7467
Dates:
1796-1916 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir William S Haldane of Foswell, Writer to the Signet, as Crown Agent for Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20245-20246
Dates:
1905-1916, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
17th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the Hamilton Bequest.
File
Identifier: F.R.339g
Dates:
Before 1906.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including letters concerning proposed building works.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/5
Dates:
1853-1857.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20770-20800
Scope and Contents
The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates:
1440-1960.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Correspondence and papers of the McNab and Hunter families, emigrants to Australia.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14276/1-5
Dates:
1829-1860.
Correspondence and papers of the Murrays of Stanhope.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.1(I)-(VII)
Scope and Contents
The great majority of the papers relate to Sir Alexander Murray, the 3rd Baronet (died 1743), and to his brother Charles, Collector of Customs at Bo`ness and de jure 5th Baronet (died 1770), although there are a few of their brother James, of Sir William, the 1st Baronet (died 1689), and of Sir David, the 2nd Baronet (died 1729).The family were Jacobites, and there is some correspondence of Sir Alexander with other participants in the rising of 1715. Apart from this, and from...
Dates:
1676-1769, and undated.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Rev Dr James C. MacPhail and of his son, J R N MacPhail, Sheriff of Stirling.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12272
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers concern MacPhail Bursary scheme for Gaelic-speaking boys, other Highland matters and the Lewis (Park) Deer Raid trial, 1887.
Dates:
1860-1930.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Correspondence, drafts, proofs and other papers relating to the publication of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia of the laws of Scotland'; with proofs of "Scotland under 'Jus Commune'", by Gero Dolezalek.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11261/1-368
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, correspondence, administrative papers and drafts of the 'Stair memorial encyclopedia'. Note that no attempt has been made 'to weed' the various drafts; this is to allow researchers to compare draft against draft and so follow each expert’s 'train of thought' in particular fields. For any particular area of interest, all the folders/files relating to the subject should be consulted. In items 322-366, particularly, there are extensive drafts and re-drafts of titles with...
Dates:
1981-1996, 2010.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19711-19733
Scope and Contents
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.
Dates:
1685-1890, undated.
Correspondence, legal and genealogical papers of the Macrae family of Conchra and Ballimore.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15921-15929
Dates:
1666-1910.
Correspondence, legal and judicial papers of the Christie of Stenton and Foulis of Ratho families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11156
Dates:
1699-1844.
Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21101-21191
Scope and Contents
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
15th century-1934, undated.