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Notarial instruments. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scots law. A notarial instrument is a written attestation, under the hand of a notary, of a fact or of facts falling within his observation. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'.

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.24
Scope and Contents The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...
Dates: 1825-?1842.

Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates: 1567-1596, and undated.