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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 165 Collections and/or Records:

Parishes of West Linton, Newlands and Eddleston., 1580-1687.

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Identifier: Ch.11859-12047
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1580-1687.

Part of the marriage contract of James Biggar and Janet Scott., 1708.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9843/48
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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: 1708.

Part of the marriage contract of James Scott and Margaret Blacklock., 1686.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9843/46
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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: 1686.

Peebleshire and Selkirkshire., 1426-1687.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11859-12356
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1426-1687.

Precept of sasine in contract of marriage between Colonel George Keith and Lady Mary Hay, of Auldmad., 14 January 1662.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17251
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are charters of Deer Abbey which passed to the family on the Reformation as the lordship of Altrie. Notes on these charters appear in Patrick Keith Murray`s `Inventory of Marischal Papers, 1905`, MS.21114.

Dates: 14 January 1662.

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.

Settlement on marriage of Colonel Edward Kerrison and Mary Martha Ellice., 19 October 1810.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12718
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 19 October 1810.

Settlement on marriage of Henry Dickinson and Mary Morison., 26 June 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12757
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 26 June 1820.

Settlement on marriage of Robert Ellice and Eliza Courtenay., 3 December 1814.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12725
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 3 December 1814.

Settlement on marriage of Robert Ellice and Eliza Courtenay., 3 December 1814.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12726
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 3 December 1814.

Three items originally found loose in MS.16497: Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts, but now kept separately., 16th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.16498
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) An address panel from a letter to Alexander Arbuthnott, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen;

(ii) An instrument of donation, 1548[-1549], by Katrine Fraser, relict of Robert Forbes, to her brother Mr George Fraser, of all her possessions;

(iii) Fragment of a contract of marriage between Alexander [ ] and Margaret Robertson, mentioning George Fraser, Minister of Durris.

Dates: 16th century.

Title deeds, marriage contracts and wills of the Bloxhams of Banbury and title deeds and related papers concerning property in Banbury and Adderbury West, Oxfordshire, with letters and notes concerning the Bloxham family, 1651-1881.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13678/6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.

Dates: 1651-1881.