Legal documents.
Subject
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Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Charters and other formal documents in the claim by Arthur Forbes 9th of Culloden (1841-1843) to the baronetcy of Foveran.
Series
Identifier: Ch.16731-16837
Scope and Contents
An inventory of the collection is available for consultation.
Dates:
1607-1835, undated.
Charters and other formal documents of and concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7713-8429
Dates:
1470-1846.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11339
Dates:
early 16th century to mid 19th century.
Charters and other papers of the family of Forbes of Culloden.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1642-2040
Dates:
1464-1788, undated.
Charters concerning the lands of Fawside near Tranent.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9261
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the family of Grant of Monymusk and Grant-Suthie of Balgonie.
With a letter, 1750, of Thomas Reid.
Dates:
17th century to 19th century.
Charters, instruments and other formal and legal documents concerning the lands of Foulshields, in the parish of Livingston, the Wardrop family, and other related families.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9843/1-69
Scope and Contents
Papers, nearly all formal documents, mostly relating to the lands of Foulshields and the families associated with them. The papers are principally those of the Wardrops and their heirs, the Scotts, but also include documents relating to Shaw, Kinloch, Baillie, Weir, and Carmichael families.
Dates:
1614-1800.
Charters, legal papers and pedigrees., 15th-19th centuries.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/180-197
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-19th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1777-1908, undated.
Charters, writs and formal papers mainly concerning the Halketts of Pitfirrane and the Wedderburns of Gosford.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.6001-7360
Dates:
1230-1878.
Church of Whittinghame., 1593-1595.
File
Identifier: Ch.11669-11671
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1593-1595.
‘Collectanea Juridica’, containing a collection of styles of deeds, writs, and forms of proceeding in various Courts of England.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.1
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Collection of Icelandic laws and legal material.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.9
Dates:
18th century.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
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.
Commentary on book four of a legal work, chiefly on actions.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.7.10
Dates:
17th century.
Commentary on Justinian, ‘Digest’, ‘Codex’, and 'Novellae’ in the hand of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.8
Dates:
1602-1605.
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, including legal case notes, family memoranda, Biblical notes and Greek verse., 1754-1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.25425
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
1754-1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
‘Compend or breviarie of the most substantiall poynts relateing to the law, extracted forth of the bookes of that learned Jurisconsult D[ominus] T[homas] C[raig] relating upon the feudall law’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.14
Dates:
17th century.
Compendium containing copies of several treatises on Scots Law., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1951
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Institution of the Colledge of Justice', describing the foundation of the College, its procedure and personnel (page i), preceded by an index (folio ii); it appears to have been written after 1613;(ii) Hope's ‘Minor practicks’ (page 45), preceded by an index (page 41);(iii) 'Practiques observed befor The Lords of Sessione Collected alphabeticallie be (?)rj from 1627 to 1637' (page 141), preceded by an index (page 133);...
Dates:
17th century.
Contemporary copies of a process of molestation in the sheriff court of Perth by Andrew Earl of Erroll against Walter Barclay of Tollie and the tenants of Kerko, and of other actions in the same matter., 10 January 1577/8-3 October 1591.
File
Identifier: MS.16769
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
10 January 1577/8-3 October 1591.
Copies, 18th century, of various legal papers, 16th and 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.16
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copies, 1593 to 18th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, ‘Practicks’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.24.2.4-24.2.4(b)
Dates:
[Circa 1579.]
Copies, 1799-1811, of the will and codicils of the 1st Earl of Minto, with legal papers, 1806-1807, concerning the vesting of his estate in trustees during his absence in India., 1799-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11176
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1799-1811.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.