Quitclaims. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Quitclaims helped to secure the transmission, typically of heritable property. Quitclaims prevented parties who might potentially bring a claim against a new owner to return the property to them (e.g. relatives or creditors of the seller) were asked to sign a quitclaim waiving all their possible rights and promising not to bring any legal actions.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Legal papers, recipes and letters of the Scawen and Meade familes., 1685-1779, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12933
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates:
1685-1779, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Scawen and Meade family papers.