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Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
Photocopies of documents concerning the trial of six bakers of the Canongate for supplying bread to the Jacobite army.
Photocopies of papers concerning the Omay family.
Comprising:
1. Paper, 1750, in a case between Duncan Omay of Kilchumkill and the 3rd Duke of Argyll
2. Letter and account, 1801, of John Forbes to Messrs Moddy and Omay, concerning collection of debts of a Scottish business in the United States
3. Letter, 1813, of Hector Macneill to Samuel Omay
4. 19 letters, 1813-1836, of John Galt to Samuel Omay.
Photocopy of the first page of the indictment at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, inscribed with the signatures of the prosecuting counsel.
Photographs and translations of documents concerning the trial of George Buchanan by the Inquisition at Lisbon.
Photographs of five documents connected with the imprisonment, trial, sentence and release of George Buchanan by the Inquisition in Portugal, 16 August 1550 to 28th February 1552, with descriptive notes (typewritten) by Guthrie.
Photographs of the will of James Balfour, and a valuation of his property.
"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".
Contains:
1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"
2 "Practickes re Land", 1666
3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.
Precept of dare constat by William Ker in favour of John Shiel.
Concerning lands of Kirknowe, Roxburghshire.
Precept of horning in favour of Thomas Stevenson and others, against John Stirling and others.
Printed copy of Justinius, "Institutes" (1678), with manuscript annotations.
Printed papers and manuscript notes by Lord Shand concerning the Free Church Appeal Case in the House of Lords.
The contents consist of Lord Shand’s copy of the House of Lords papers in the Free Church appeal case (The general assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and others v the Right Honourable John Campbell, Lord Overtoun and others), 1904, with his Lordships manuscript notes and the printed draft judgements of Lords Davey, Robertson, and Lindley.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Proceedings and notes of arguments in the case of the Earl of Traquair, apparently in his own hand.
Rental of the lands of Kintail, Lochalsh, Loch Carron, and others belonging to Seaforth made for Edwart Burt.
‘Repertory’ of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk.
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);
2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;
3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.
Scots law style-book, written by D Bonthrone.
The author’s signature appears on folio 69.
Scotsman Buildings Chartulary
Copies of title deeds, legal documents and fire insurance policies relating to buildings on North Bridge, Edinburgh, occupied by 'The Scotsman' newspaper.
Scottish chartularies transcribed, 1738-1744, for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
The wording and ornament of the title pages suggest a division into three groups:
(i) Adv.MSS.35.2.5, 35.3.6, 35.3.7, 35.39: 1738-1739.
(ii) Adv.MSS.35.3.2, 35.3.4: 1740.
(iii) Adv.MSS.35.3.3, 35.3.5, 35.3.8: 1740-1744.
The sources are mainly the original manuscripts then in the Advocates` Library, with notes taken from Richard Augustine Hay`s works. Only those documents the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail.
Scottish criminal cases, 1716-1760, written in a formal 18th-century hand.
The manuscript is inscribed `Baron Hume 1829` at folio 1, and may have been compiled or copied by him whilst a student. It is imperfect, lacking an estimated 84 leaves between folios 56 and 57 (corresponding to pages 111-278 of the original pagination), and possibly a flyleaf or leaves; and the upper board is detached from the binding. There appears to be an unidentified bookplate underneath the pastedown stuck to the upper board.
Scrapbooks of Lord MacGregor Mitchell.
Eleven scrapbooks, 1899-1935, concerning Lord Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875-1938), Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal MP for Perth and University Rector.
The scrapbooks contain newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera mostly documenting Lord Mitchell’s legal and political career, as well as his personal interests in golf and cricket.