Marriage-contracts. Contracts.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Scots Law. A contract entered into ante or post-nuptially between persons about to be or actually married, for the purpose of regulating the rights in property of themsleves and their children. Sometimes called a marriage settlement, the English expression. Source: Dewer, A. 'Student's glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946).
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Formal documents contained amongst the papers of John Riddell, peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.245-250
Dates:
1426-1594.
Formal documents from the additional papers to the Riddell collection.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.205-209
Dates:
1570, 1837-1848.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15397-15431
Dates:
1685-1842.
Formal documents from the MacLeod of Geanies papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15326-15347
Dates:
1662-1805, undated.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7595-7610
Dates:
1741-1841.
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15393-15396
Dates:
1884-1888.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
Marriage contract of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet and Anne Rutherford, parents of Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.38
Dates:
25 April 1758.
Marriage settlement of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot, under Secretary of State for the colonies, and Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Bromley.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15392
Dates:
31 December 1868.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
File
Identifier: MS.90
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i-iv) Four printed proclamations, etc., 1708, 1710, 1714 (folio 1);(v) Obligation by Patrick Hamilton and other inhabitants of Arran to provide levies, etc., for the defence of the religion, laws, and liberties of the Kirk and Kingdom whenever desired by the Earl of Argyll, 1639 (folio 6);(vi) Extract registered bond by Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum to the Committee of Estates to observe the National Covenant, 1641 (folio 8);...
Dates:
1590-1838.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers relating to Henry Dundas and also to the Trotter family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14535
Scope and Contents
Papers contain:Copy of marriage contract, 1669, between Issobell [sic] Paterson and Robert Bruce. cover note "1669 given me by Alice[?] Trotter" - possibly in the hand of Louisa Kathleen Haldane (née Trotter).Copy of a tack, 1750, between Alexander Young and Mrs Jean Stewart for a property on Potterrow.Royal Warrant, 1784, authorising Henry Dundas, as Treasurer of the Navy, to pursue orders of the Navy Board in sending Money to distant parts of Great...
Dates:
1669-1836.