Opinions. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A formal statement of reasons for a judgement given. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. Oxford 2004.
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
Opinion of William de Grey, Attorney General [created Baron Walsingham 1780], upon the petition of Henry Willoughby claiming the title of Willoughby of Parham., 27 January 1767.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15454
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all of these papers were used in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up [but not brought to the House of Lords] by George Cockburn, Haldane of Gleneagles. An inventory of these documents and papers is available.
Dates:
27 January 1767.
Opinions and answers of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, to memorials., 1733-1740.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.24
Opinions and answers of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, to memorials., 1738-1746.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.25
Scope and Contents
Contains copies of charters of the 15th century at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
1738-1746.
Opinions and answers of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, to memorials., 1740-1754.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.26
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer., 1708-1751.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
A note of Baron Maule records that the documents were copied in October 1751 ` from a book in the Custom house at Edinburgh`. Tables of contents are entered in the first two volumes.
Dates:
1708-1751.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume I., February 1708-August 1732.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(i)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A note of Baron Maule records that the documents were copied in October 1751 ` from a book in the Custom house at Edinburgh`. Tables of contents are entered in the first two volumes.
Dates:
February 1708-August 1732.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume II., June 1734-October 1746.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A note of Baron Maule records that the documents were copied in October 1751 ` from a book in the Custom house at Edinburgh`. Tables of contents are entered in the first two volumes.
Dates:
June 1734-October 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer, volume III., October 1746-May 1751.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.3(iii)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A note of Baron Maule records that the documents were copied in October 1751 ` from a book in the Custom house at Edinburgh`. Tables of contents are entered in the first two volumes.
Dates:
October 1746-May 1751.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
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`Opinions Customs Scotland`: copies of opinions of Scottish Crown counsel in cases connected with the customs of Scotland, and other cases in the Court of Exchequer.
`Opinions Excheq[ue]r Scotland`, a volume containing copies of opinions and reports of Crown counsel to the Barons, `Copyed from a book in the Exchequer at Edinburgh`., 1714-1759.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.4
Dates:
1714-1759.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Papers, 1818, in the claim of the Marquess of Abercorn to certain dignities and honours of the House of Hamilton, consisting of statements and opinions thereanent, and copies of a decreet of the Duchess of Hamilton against the Earl of Abercorn, 1658, and of a reported case of the Duke of Hamilton, 1747., 1658, 1747, 1818.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1658, 1747, 1818.
Papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to the building, financing, maintenance and repair of the turnpike roads of Angus., 1823-1850.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19585-19587
Papers concerning Archibald Constable and the works of Sir Walter Scott., 1823-1827.
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 88-118
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Copies of a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, presenting him with the manuscripts of the ‘Waverley Novels’, and of Constable's reply (folio 88);'Memorial & queries of Messrs. Archd. Constable & Company as to encroachments on the works of the Author of ‘Waverley’ by authors of dramas and condensations, 1823, with holograph answers by Francis Jeffrey, 1824 (folio 91);'Case and queries for the opinion of...
Dates:
1823-1827.
Papers concerning lead mining in Scotland in the late 16th century, and political papers of the 17th century., 1584-1686, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.9
Scope and Contents
The first part of the volume consists of papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, mostly in his capacity of Master of the Metals and Minerals, and of his brother Sir David Lindsay of Edzell (see also Adv.MS.19.1.24). These are followed by papers concerning the Covenanters and the Scots Commissioners at Ripon and London. The remainder mostly concern Lord Menmuir`s grandson, Alexander, Lord Lindsay of Balcarres, later the first Earl, who joined the Covenanters, but after taking part in the...
Dates:
1584-1686, and undated.
Papers concerning the claim of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn to the Earldom of Dundee., 16th century-17th century, 1843.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.11
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of a genealogical table, and draft statements and opinion by John Riddell, 1843, and undated (folios 1-160), extracts made apparently in 1846 of 16th- and 17th-century public records relating to members of the family (folios 161-179), and a small miscellany of other papers (folios 180-190).
Dates:
16th century-17th century, 1843.
Papers concerning the Peers of Scotland., 1707-1761.
File
Identifier: MS.17534
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise a list of Peers according to the Rolls of the last Parliament of Scotland, 1707; copy of a petition by them to Queen Anne concerning their right to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of a peerage of Great Britain, 1710; notes of limitations on Scots peerages, 1740; opinion on the succession to Lord Newark, 1741; the Earl of Bute's list for voting at the election of Representative Peers, 1747; ten proxies, signed but not completed, for the same election; two claims to...
Dates:
1707-1761.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a dispute with Edinburgh Town Council., 1688-1699, undated.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/11(iii)
Dates:
1688-1699, undated.
Papers relating to the professional affairs of David Hope., 1965-1994.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13568/1-79
Scope and Contents
This series comprises notebooks recording David Hope's legal opinions at different stages of his legal career and a fee notebook recording financial matters.
Dates:
1965-1994.
Reports, memorials, opinions and other papers relating to roads, turnpikes, railways and other county business., 1825-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.19587
Dates:
1825-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
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Papers, chiefly correspondence, relating to the building, financing, maintenance and repair of the turnpike roads of Angus.
Volume containing papers concerning peerages attainted after the 1715 and 1745 Rebellions., 1818-1829.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Opinions, 1826, concerning the forfeiture of the Earldom of Cromartie (folios 1-52);(ii) Letters, 1818-1819, and papers including transcripts of documents and opinions, 1829, and undated, concerning the claim of Sir Thomas Livingstone, 7th Baronet, of Westquarter, to the title and dignities of Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar (folios 53-119);(iii) Draft remarks, 1828, on the claim of William Maxwell of Caruchan...
Dates:
1818-1829.