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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:

Formal documents from the papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.7566-7593
Scope and Contents

Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.

Dates: 1517-1875.

Formal documents from the Yule collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.2416-2476
Scope and Contents

Several documents are accompanied by a transcript or a summary by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1604-1736, 1843.

Formal documents of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.1450-1461
Scope and Contents

Includes some modern transcripts.

Dates: 1660-1825.

Four miscellaneous French documents.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.7698-7701

Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.17
Scope and Contents

Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.

Dates: 1773-1821.

Fragment of book 4 of a legal work, on actions, probation, and sentences.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.3.11
Scope and Contents

An imperfect treatise on law. The same arrangement followed as George Mackenzie, but it is not a transcript. The first part wanting. Contains: Book 4, Tit. I of actions; Tit. II of probation; Tit. III of sentences and their execution.

Dates: [Circa 1700.]

Fragment of legal document.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4746

Fragment of legal document, concerning a mayor of a city.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5112
Scope and Contents

Recovered from binding of MS.2813.

Dates: Undated.

Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates: 1651-1960

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13405
Scope and Contents Papers, 1947-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. The collection comprises papers, 1947-1977, concerning the death of Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton; correspondence, 1954-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton with George, 10th Earl of Selkirk; papers, ca. 1980-1994, relating to his death and the future of the earldom; and personal papers and correspondence, ca. 1950-1985, of Lord Selkirk of Douglas.The correspondence includes letters of several statesmen and other...
Dates: 1947-1994.

Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11019
Scope and Contents

Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.

Dates: 1776-1942 and undated.

Icelandic legal papers.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.3.2-21.3.4

Instrument of Sasine in Scots.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.9257
Scope and Contents

In favour of William Edger of an annual rent from the lands of Greenhead in the parish of Troqueer.

Dates: 1619.

‘Jus feudale’ and ‘Tractatus in libros de feudis’ by Sir Thomas Craig.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.1
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.2.17).

Dates: [Before 1609.]

‘Jus feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.2
Scope and Contents

A copy of 'Jus feudale' without the tractatus. At the end is an imperfect index of matters.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.24).

Dates: [1603, or before.]

Legal and financial papers of the Campbell family of Calder.

 ...
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern the affairs of John Campbell, when he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Hugh Campbell, to the estate of Calder in 1716. Others concern his estate in Islay, the factor of which was James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1688-1723.