Legal documents.
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Formal documents from the papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Formal documents from the papers of the Setons of Touch.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Formal documents from the Yule collection.
Several documents are accompanied by a transcript or a summary by Alexander Macdonald.
Formal documents of the MacGregors or Drummonds of Balhaldie, or relating to their lands.
Formal documents of the Scotts of Raeburn.
Includes some modern transcripts.
Formal documents to and of Alexander Carlyle, minister of Inveresk, being part of his correspondence and papers.
A detailed list is available.
Fragment of a copy, being pages 19-124 (containing Title I to Title VII of Book 1) of the first edition of ‘An Institute of the Law of Scotland’ by John Erskine, containing numerous additions throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.
Many of the additions in the outer margins are merely chapter headings, whilst most of those in the upper and lower margins are notes of legal cases heard after the publication of the book, as far as 1821 (folio 175). The longest additions are written on fragments or entire sheets of paper tipped in throughout. There are also a few later additions written in pencil in another hand.
Fragment of book 4 of a legal work, on actions, probation, and sentences.
An imperfect treatise on law. The same arrangement followed as George Mackenzie, but it is not a transcript. The first part wanting. Contains: Book 4, Tit. I of actions; Tit. II of probation; Tit. III of sentences and their execution.
Fragment of legal document, concerning a mayor of a city.
Recovered from binding of MS.2813.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.
Icelandic and Danish legal and antiquarian miscellany.
Icelandic law of public assemblies, compiled by Thorsteinn Magnússon, and other legal papers.
Instrument of Sasine in Scots.
In favour of William Edger of an annual rent from the lands of Greenhead in the parish of Troqueer.
‘Insula Monae’, an abridgment of the laws of the Isle of Man by John Parr.
Inventories and other legal papers concerning the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
‘Jus feudale’ and ‘Tractatus in libros de feudis’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.2.17).
‘Jus feudale’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
A copy of 'Jus feudale' without the tractatus. At the end is an imperfect index of matters.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.3.24).
Legal and financial papers of the Campbell family of Calder.
Most of the papers concern the affairs of John Campbell, when he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Hugh Campbell, to the estate of Calder in 1716. Others concern his estate in Islay, the factor of which was James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.