Minutes. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Documents forming part of a process by means of which a party (or parties, jointly) defines his position as to certain procedural matters as, for example, by amending his pleadings, by referring to the oath of his adversary or by abandoning the action. Source: Gibb (A D). 'Students' glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946.).
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Minutes of the Justices of the Peace for Roxburghshire (among them Sir Thomas Ker) concerning nine Teviotdale parishes., 1656-1659.
File
Identifier: MS.5439
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1656-1659.
Minutes on missionary administration and relations, and other papers., 1964-1965.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5239/8
Dates:
1964-1965.
Miscellaneous legal papers in a volume bearing the name 'Spotiswoode' and the date 1701., 1540-1701.
File
Identifier: MS.2941
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'The remanent of Mr. David Ayttoune of Kingglassie his Prackties, 1540', copy. The leaves are much decayed. (Folio ii verso.) (ii) Balfour's ‘Practicks’, copied, 1645-1646, by Thomas (?)Veatche. (Folio 1.)(iii) 'Ane minit of the airship goods and geir pertaineinge to ane burgess as if the defunct had the samen in his possession in the tyme of his deceise'. (Folio 179 verso.)(iv) 'Ane short treatise and forme of...
Dates:
1540-1701.
Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bengal Government., 1808-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11600
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies of depositions from victims of dacoits, 1808-1809, taken before William Coates Blaquiere, Acting Magistrate of Nadia (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Thomas Henry Ernst, Third Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal at Benares (Varanasi), 1810, with an enclosed memorandum concerning police administration in the Benares district (folio 12). See also MS.11597.
(iii) Papers, 1810, concerning the enquiry into the conduct of William Brodie, Bengal Civil Service,...
Dates:
1808-1813.
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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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
Miscellaneous loose papers of the Knights Companions of the Most Sovereign and Social Order of the Cape and of C.F.D., 1768-1841, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2044
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise: treasurers' accounts, 1776-1808, 1841, undated (folio 3); and rules, lists, minutes of meetings, correspondence, etc., 1768-1826, undated (folio 1, 25).
Dates:
1768-1841, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/9
Dates:
1703-1856.
Papers of Auldbar estate., 1755-[circa 1900.]
File
Identifier: MS.15418
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Apprisings, valuations, etc. (folio 1); (ii) Rentals (folio 50); (iii) Papers on roups (folio 93); (iv) Papers on agriculture and forestry (folio 110); (v) Papers on fishing (folio 144); (vi) Papers on dogs (folio 153); (vii) Papers concerning roads (folio 171); (viii) Papers concerning churches (folio 213); (ix) Papers concerning schools (folio 217); (x) Papers concerning prisons (folio 223).
Dates:
1755-[circa 1900.]
Papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of various clients., 1732-1777, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1174
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:
1732-1777, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of, to and concerning John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, son of John Mackenzie, Advocate.
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Papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of various clients (not represented in MSS.1229-1489).
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the case of W W Ramsay, Library Assistant.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/52
Dates:
1823.
Papers of the Free Church of Scotland relating to the McLaren Fund., 1849-1900, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.18075-18077
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.
Dates:
1849-1900, undated.
Printed session papers, Higgins and others v Lord Polkemmet and others, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1799-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.14
SLA Minutes., 1986.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/26
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1986.
SLA Minutes., 1987.
File
Identifier: Acc.13656/27
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1987.
‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.8
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.1.8.
Dates:
1643-1648.