Opinions. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A formal statement of reasons for a judgement given. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. Oxford 2004.
Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and financial papers relating to the Dunbar of Mochrum family; including opinions of the Accountant of Court., 1885.
File
Identifier: Acc.14581/50
Advocate's opinion notebooks of David Hope., 1978-1989.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13568/1-46
Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.395
Dates:
1826-1830.
`Book of Opinions 1`, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1708-1730.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.1.2
Scope and Contents
The volume is prefaced by a contents list.
Dates:
1708-1730.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
`Book of Opinions`, volume 2, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1727-1738.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(i)
`Book of Opinions`, volume 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury., 1739-1746.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(ii)
`Book of Opinions`, volumes 2 and 3, containing copies of opinions and memorials of English Crown counsel in matters of customs and excise arising in the Exchequer or Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The volumes were copied in July 1751 for John Maule, Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, from other copies belonging to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1727-1746.
Case for opinion and opinion of Samuel Marryat., 1816.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7602
Copies, in chronological order, of the opinions given by John Inglis (later Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session), some conjointly with other advocates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.4.13-81.4.18
Scope and Contents
The volumes are numbered V to X; it seems likely that the missing I to IV covered all of Inglis’s earlier career as an advocate, from 1835. The series ends with his elevation to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk in July 1858.
Dates:
1846-1858.
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1785-1799.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25751-25756
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1785-1788.
File
Identifier: MS.25751
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1788-1789.
File
Identifier: MS.25752
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1789-1792.
File
Identifier: MS.25753
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1792-1794.
File
Identifier: MS.25754
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1794-1797.
File
Identifier: MS.26755
Copies of memorials, queries and opinions made when Lord Hermand was an Advocate., 1797-1799.
File
Identifier: MS.25756
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., October 1846-March 1848.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.13
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., March 1848-December 1849.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.14
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., January 1850-May 1853.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.15
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., May 1853-December 1854.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.16
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., December 1854-November 1856.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.17
Copies of the opinions given by John Inglis, some conjointly with other advocates., November 1856-June 1858.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.18
Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the Parish of Minto., 1858-1878.
File
Identifier: MS.13322
Dates:
1858-1878.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Papers on churches and schools in Minto, Ashkirk and parishes in Fife and Roxburghshire.
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Correspondence and papers concerning church affairs in the Parish of Minto.
Correspondence and papers concerning private entail acts obtained by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1775-1792, 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.11175
Dates:
1775-1792, 1806-1807.
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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Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the marriage contract of the 2nd Earl of Minto, and private entail acts obtained by the 1st Earl of Minto.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the Copyright Acts and Bill.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/48
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of legal opinions on the Copyright Acts 1860-1861; Copyright Commission 1876-1880; Copyright Bill 1898.
Dates:
1860-1861, 1876-1880, 1898.