Stylebooks. Reference sources.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
"A collection of styles...Vol 1st, by a Committee of the Juridical Society".
‘Acta Scotica’, containing styles, chiefly of commissions and safe conducts for Ambassadors, with extracts of some proceedings in Parliament.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deeds and other writs.
‘Grant manuscript.’
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Papers concerning the family of Gordon of Cairnfield.
Including a style book and rental book.
Scots law style book, 'containing the forms of all obligations, assignations, translations, dispositions, contracts, charters &c. and other writes which pass twixt private persons, with the usuall forms of summondess and lyblis used before Sheriff and Commissary Courts of Aberdeen. Belonging to and written by James Catanach, MDCCXXII'.
Scots law style-book, written by D Bonthrone.
The author’s signature appears on folio 69.
Style book.
The name John Mudie is written on folios iii verso, xv verso, and xvi.
Style book of Alexander Duncan.
A collection of styles apparently written by Alexander Duncan, whose name is on the first page.
Style-book of Scots Law forms, written in several hands.
Style book, possibly of David Wilson.
The style book contains the 'formes of all bonds, assignations, etc'.
Style book, possibly of James Weir, Writer to the Signet.
A collection of Scots conveyancing styles compiled about the end of 16th century. On folio 79 verso is the signature of James Weir, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1668; died 1687).
Stylebook apparently compiled by a writer in Stirling.
The writer deals with bills, bonds, discharges, dispositions and charters, and other deeds consequent on them. A full list of contents as far as page 175 appears on the top pastedown. In some cases actual documents are quoted, in others the particular details are removed.