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Minutes of agreement. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scots law. A document drawn up between two or more parties in the presence of their solicitors, without the need for formal court action. In its usual format it will contain numbered paragraphs which record formal but legally binding provisions that each party has agreed to be bound by.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.