Legal instruments.
Subject
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Scope Note: 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. For documents having legal relevance in general, use ""legal documents"" .
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted formal documents from the Murray of Stanhope Collection.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.132-142
Dates:
1686-1733.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Charters and formal documents from the papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1353-2335
Dates:
12th century-1798.
Charters and legal instruments concerning Forbes of Pitsligo and lands in Rosehearty.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.98-108
Dates:
1684-1685, 1728-1794.
Deed of provision by George, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, to Julia Stewart-Mackenzie, Viscountess Walden.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12371
Dates:
1873.
Disposition by John Gairdine to his son William, of a tenement in the West Bow, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3908
Dates:
1591.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Douglas of Springwood Park Charters.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7637-7676
Scope and Contents
Formal documents from the papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park. They consist mostly of marriage-contracts, certificates and military commissions of members of the family, but also include a few documents relating to the family estates.
Dates:
1649-1888.
Instrument of sasine, 1613, concerning lands in the barony of Crawfordjohn.
File
Identifier: Acc.6510
Scope and Contents
With three documents, 1720, 1873, 1887, concerning ancestors of the donor, Donald Mackenzie.
Dates:
1613, 1720, 1873, 1887.
Instrument of sasine concerning property in St Andrews, with two indentures.
File
Identifier: Acc.3638
Dates:
1694, 1775, 1814.
Instrument of sasine in favour of John Alexander of land in Aberdeen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6699
Dates:
1591.
Lease and release of part of the Higher Plantation, Tobago (including named enslaved people) in favour of William Marshall, Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50269-50270
Scope and Contents
Lease and release, 1774, of John Young and John Macrae concerning the conveyance of part of Higher Plantation, Tobago, in favour of William Marshall.
Dates:
1774
Letter and legal documents of and concerning George Jameson, Provost of Cupar, Fife.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.16-18
Dates:
1650-1659.
Letter of poinding, 1656, against the shire of Renfrew.
File
Identifier: Acc.4980
Scope and Contents
With patent, 1839, to Abraham Bury.
Dates:
1656, 1839.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Miscellaneous documents from the Lauriston Castle Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.3-12
Dates:
15th century-1773.
Miscellaneous legal documents and legal instruments.
Series
Identifier: Ch.B.14-18
Dates:
1457-1761.
Miscellaneous letters and legal documents of and relating to Scottish families.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13380
Scope and Contents
Order of John Lambert, parliamentary solider and politician concerning David, 2nd Lord Cardross 1651; three letters of Joseph Gordon to his father, Sir Ludovick Gordon of Gordonston, 1679; letter of Patrick Murray, Lord Elibank to John Johnstone, 1768; three letters of and to John Anstruther and Sir Robert Ainslie, 1802-1805; letter of M Hoey to Sir Robert Ainslie, 1803; letter of Lady Minto to Colonel John Drinkwater, 1808; verse and drawing relating to John Sobieski Stuart, undated;...
Dates:
1651-1843
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15258-15321
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: charters and sasines of property in North Street, Perth, 1544-1668 (further records of the Incorporation held in the Scottish Record Office - GD1/427 - show that by 1718 the Hammermen had acquired much of the North Street property by purchase from David Moncrieff who in turn had acquired it from Sir William Stewart of Inneruytie) and one for property in South Street, 1781. Also the oath sworn by the Perth Hammermen on the Test Act 1681, in 1682, and extracts from the Burgh...
Dates:
1544-1692, 1781.
Neilson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.951-1440
Scope and Contents
Deeds collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, as part of his manuscript collection.
Dates:
1325-1840.
Notarial instrument, declaring James Charles Forman is immediate younger brother, and nearest lawful heir, of Robert.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7057
Dates:
1900.
Papers concerning Scottish history.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6687
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letters of horning, circa 1657, in the name of Oliver Cromwell, against several hundred people for absenting themselves from courts held at Inverness2. minutes, 1693, of the committee of the Scots Parliament appointed to consider the financial projects of Hugh Chamberlain3. two documents, 1697, concerning the commission appointed to enquire into witchcraft in Renfrewshire4. eight documents, 1597-1802, concerning Scottish...
Dates:
1597-1802.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6275/1-133
Dates:
1618-1941, undated.