Infeftments. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: The act of giving symbolical possession of heritable property between a superior and a vassal. It can also refer to the charter by which the superior conferred the right and the sasine, or infeftment, by which possession was given. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'. 7th edition.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.