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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:

Correspondence, legal papers and accounts of John Robertson, planter in Jamaica, and James Robertson, planter in Jamaica, and later of Kelso.

 File
Identifier: MS.20991
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1765-1821, of and concerning the Robertson family with many concerning the estate of James Aitchison, planter in Jamaica, (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous legal papers, 1765-1826, chiefly concerning the division of the estate of James Robertson, 1821-1826 (folio 46); (iii) Miscellaneous accounts, 1802-1826, of the Robertson family (folio 192).

Dates: 1765-1826, undated.

Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

"Decreet of Modification and Locality. The Minister of Tillicoultry against the Heritor of Tillicoultry", copy by James Wright and collated by John Barron.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7520
Scope and Contents

From the Records of the Commission for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds.

Dates: 1832.

Deeds and papers relating to the legal and financial transactions of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, and his son-in-law, James Steuart, writer, Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.2060-2102
Scope and Contents

The papers include Thomas Ruddiman`s settlement, 1748, of his means and estate in favour of his wife and daughter (Ch.2061-2062), his mortification, 1748, in favour of the school of Inverboyndie (Ch.2063-2064), his contract of copartnery, 1748, with his brother Walter in the printing-press (Ch.2065) and accounts, and documents relating to various debts.

Dates: 1747-1777.

Deeds, judicial papers, and other documents, mostly legal, from the Hay of Yester papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.10685-12590
Scope and Contents

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1426-1959.

Depositions, 1689, by ministers of Logie, Stirlingshire, concerning their persecution by soldiery.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7593
Scope and Contents

With records, 1715, of formal denials in a bastardy accusation at Burntisland, and other unconnected papers.

Dates: 1689-1715.

Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1993.

Disposition and discharge to George and Elizabeth Dalglish.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7031
Scope and Contents

Concerning property in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1902, 1906.

Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.972
Scope and Contents

The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.

Dates: 1836-1841, 1881.

Documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.

 File
Identifier: MS.6296
Scope and Contents

The collection includes documents, 1694-1695, concerning the recruiting of troops in Lanarkshire (folio 14), statements, 1694, used in a lawsuit between members of the Forrest family of Braidwood over a question of thirlage (folio 9), and other legal, family, and parish papers.

Dates: 1668-1857, undated.

Douglas of Springwood Park Papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7448
Scope and Contents

Being family correspondence and legal papers of Sir John J Scott Douglas, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Scott Douglas.

Dates: 1813-1856 and undated.