Briefs. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Concise statements of the arguments of a party to a case in dispute, submitted to the court or other body hearing the case.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Arguments of the judges in the Court of Exchequer in the Bankers’ case, 23rd June 1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.13
Dates:
1691-1696.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.8
Scope and Contents
There is a contents list on folio 1.The contents are as follows: (i) brief for the 9th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Abercorn (folio 1); (ii) brief for the 7th Earl of Galloway, 6th Earl of Stair, 13th Lord Somerville and 7th Lord Napier of Merchiston against a petition of the 4th Earl of Selkirk and the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (folio 18); (iii) brief for the same four peers as (ii) above relating to a point in a petition by the 7th Marquess of...
Dates:
?1785-1790.
Copies, on paper watermarked 1811, of an opinion on the descent of and right to the title of the Earl of Moray, 1785 (folio 1), a brief for William, Lord Belhaven, claiming the rights to vote as a Scots Representative Peer in the election of 1790 (folio 29), notes on the claim of Andrew John Drummond to the viscountcy of Strathallan, ?1790 (folio 37), and the case of Francis, Lord Napier, concerning the election of 1790 (folio 43)., 1785, 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1785, 1790.
Papers and report of judgement in a dispute between the College of Justice and the town of Edinburgh, concerning exemption from taxes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.2
Dates:
1687.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, mostly containing printed material, some press cuttings and photographs., 1821-1978, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/82-102
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.
Dates:
1821-1978, undated.
Printed papers of the family of Erskine of Alva including statements by parties in legal cases, some parliamentary papers, and letters and instructions of the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving the Fisheries and Manufactures of Scotland., 1592-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5128
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
1592-1825, undated.
Several arguments of all the twelve judges of England in the Court of Exchequer concerning the case of ship money.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.1
Dates:
1638.