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:
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.1697
Scope and Contents
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Dates:
[?1768.]
Private legal and financial papers chiefly of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, but also of and concerning his family., 1751-1786.
File
Identifier: MS.25306
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:
1751-1786.
Proceedings and notes of arguments in the case of the Earl of Traquair, apparently in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.3
Dates:
1641.
`Proceedings in the Exchequer`, a collection of forms and procedures obtained by Baron Maule `by the favour of Sir Thomas Parkes, Lord Chief Baron`, March 1750., 1750.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.3
Scope and Contents
A list (described as `index`) to the ‘general heads’ can be found on pages 255-258.
Dates:
1750.
Proceedings of a General Court Martial on the trials of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, Major Joseph Storey and Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton., 1810.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11671-11672
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:
1810.
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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army.
Protection to witnesses given by the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary of the Northern District, Aberdeen., 1701.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2029
Purchase by John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, from Simon Fraser, 3rd of Inverallochie, of Ferintosh [including Kinkell] in 1669, and Bunchrew in 1673; with other dealings of Forbes with Inverallochie, and of Inverallochie with other persons., 1669, 1673.
File
Identifier: Ch.1864-1882
Rearranged copy, late 16th century-mid 17th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, 'Practicks’., [Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.3(c)
Scope and Contents
Volume containing the alphabetical rearrangment of Sir James Balfour’s ‘Practicks’, with an 18th century index (folios 8-207; iii-xvii). It is prefaced by ‘The ordoure of Chancellarie’ section (folio 1). It is followed by ‘Schiplawis elected further of alcheron… Anno 1543, 1557’ (folio 209) and ‘The lawes of the merches betwixt Scotland and Ingland, 1590’ (folio 232); these are not the Balfour passages on these subjects, which appear in their proper places in the main section. The border...
Dates:
[Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
Records of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1517-1884.
Series
Identifier: MSS.216-277
Dates:
1517-1884.
Referral to arbitration by trustees of James Marshall W.S. and of General John Fletcher Campbell of dispute concerning a bond of the road trustees in Stirlingshire., After 1806.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14745
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Dates:
After 1806.
Regality of Dunfermline., 1587-1753.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12357-12445
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.
Dates:
1587-1753.
'Regulae Iuris’, an alphabetical list of legal terms, etc., chiefly Latin, compiled by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17824
Scope and Contents
An index to legal works is on the inverted folios.
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .
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Works concerning law compiled by Lord Milton.
Rental of the lands of Kintail, Lochalsh, Loch Carron, and others belonging to Seaforth made for Edwart Burt.
File
Identifier: Acc.8203
Dates:
1726.
Rentals and related papers, lawyers' accounts, memoranda, inventories, roup rolls etc. of the Sunderland Estate., 1780-1816.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6223/12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers form the main archive of the Campbells of Craignish, as preserved by the late Robert R Campbell of the Board of Education, the head of a senior cadet branch of the family. They consist almost entirely of formal estate records, financial papers, rentals, and accounts, and give in general a good view of the running of a highland estate in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Particulalry interesting in this context are the account books of Donald Campbell of Barrichbean....
Dates:
1780-1816.
Rentals, plans, and lawyers' accounts, 1805-1834, for the estates of Strowan, Cowgask, and Cultybraggan, and legal papers, 1786-1883, and miscellaneous estate receipts, 1808-1835, undated, for Strowan estate., 1786-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10913
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1786-1883, undated.
‘Repertory’ of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.2
Dates:
17th century.
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.1
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
18th century.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1713-1775.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1528-1529
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
1713-1775.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1693-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.1528
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of the following: Baird of Newbyth, 1768; Cheap of Sauchie, 1753; Dempster of Pitliver, 1693, 1695; Falconer, 1764; Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore, 1760; Montgomery, 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1770; All these are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.
Dates:
1693-1770.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1713-1775.
File
Identifier: MS.1529
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of the following: Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, 1775; St Clair of Sinclair, 1751; Stewart, 8th and 9th Earls of Moray, 1739-1767; Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland, 1751; Wright of Cliftonhall and Kersy, Alexander Gibson, 1761-1762; Young, Dame Jean, née Hamilton of Preston, 1713. All except the last are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.
Dates:
1713-1775.
Rolls relating the Forbes family., 1646-1701
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.2030-2040
"Rules of the procedure of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in North Britain"., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5134
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume, in a different hand, are 'Rules of Proceeding in the Exchequer Office in Edinburgh'.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Rutherford debts., 1631-1687.
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Identifier: Ch.11859-12001
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning the purchase of the Barony and Regality of Linton by the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale in 1671, and the assignment to him of Lord Rutherford`s debts.
Dates:
1631-1687.