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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 69 Collections and/or Records:

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1807-1819.

 File
Identifier: MS.16781
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1807-1819.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1841, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.16782
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: [1820]-1841, undated.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1836.

 File
Identifier: MS.16782 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: [1820]-1836.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1836-1841, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16782 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1836-1841, undated.

Files, 1980-1984, relating to IBM and the European Court of justice; including photocopies, [?1981-?1984], of European Court of Justice judgement files, 1956-1980., 1956-1984.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10046/22-25
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.

Dates: 1956-1984.

Financial and other papers concerning the Hamilton family., 1717-1767.

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Identifier: MS.5371
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Financial papers, 1717, concerning Anne, Duchess of Hamilton (folio 1);

(ii) Papers, 1747-1762, of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton (folio 17);

(iii) Papers relating to the repair of the roof of the Abbey Church of Holyrood, 1757-1758 (folio 196);

(iv) A legal 'Opinion for The Tutors of His Grace, the Duke of Hamilton', 1767, i.e. James, 7th Duke (folio 212).

Dates: 1717-1767.

Judicial Opinions notebooks of David Hope., 1989-1997.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13568/56-78
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series comprises notebooks recording David Hope's legal opinions at different stages of his legal career and a fee notebook recording financial matters.

Dates: 1989-1997.

Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1469-1818.

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Identifier: MS.5326
Scope and Contents

The legal documents comprise the following: (i) Acts, 1469-1815 (number 1), number 19 being a record of the head court of the barony of Castlemilk, 1717; (ii) Cases to lawyers, 1761-1812 (number 30); (iii) Opinions of lawyers and others, 1769-1807 (number 43); Queries to lawyers, 1675-1796 (number 47); (iv) Answers on legal questions, 1679-1815 (number 55); (v) Petitions, 1677-1818 (number 71).

Dates: 1469-1818.

Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning judicial affairs., 17th century-19th century.

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Identifier: MS.15461
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Croslegh to Crowdy., 1809-1912

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Identifier: MS.40296
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Croslegh, Charles.Letter, 1869, of Charles Croslegh to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Cross, Miss.Letter, ? 1896, of Miss Cross to John Murray IV. Folio 3.Cross, Constance.Letter, 1871, of Constance Cross to John Murray III. Folios 4-5.Cross, Francis William.Letters, 1890, of Francis William Cross to John Murray...
Dates: 1809-1912

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Cooke, G. to Cooke, J., 1826-1913.

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Identifier: MS.40265
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Cooke, George.Letter, 1826, of George Cooke to John Murray II. Folios 1-2.Cooke, George Albert.Letters and visiting card, 1898, of George Albert Cooke to Alexander Henry Hallam Murray and John Murray IV. Folios 3-7.Cooke, George Frederick.Letters, 1868, 1871, 1874,-187, 1877, 1887, 1889 and 1891, of George Frederick Cooke to Robert...
Dates: 1826-1913.

Manuscript legal papers, chiefly draft of the Act and opinions for the trustees., 1830-1838.

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Identifier: MS.16804
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1830-1838.

Material concerning the College of Glasgow and the Parish of Govan., 1792.

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Identifier: MS.2700
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:'Extracts from Records, Manuscripts, &c. respecting the College of Glasgow and their right to the teinds of the parish of Govan', 1792 (page 1); 'Memorial for the heritors of the parish of Govan', 1792 (page 107);'Note for the Heritors of Govan to their Counsel, 9 May, 1792' (page 132);'Note of Authorities concerning the jurisdiction of the Commissaries in Scotland to strike the annual fiars, 27 March, 1792'...
Dates: 1792.

Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bengal Government., 1808-1813.

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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.

Miscellaneous papers of the 10th and 11th Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1875-1915, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14538
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Press cuttings, February 1875, of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale’s speeches concerning marine electric telegraphs (folio 1);(ii) Papers in Africaans, 1892-1900, largely administrative and military, including many signed by Benjamin Johanis Viljoen, Assistant Commandant- General, Transvaal Burgher Forces (see MS.14466, folios 201, 206-208) (folio 8);(iii) 'Proposal for loan of £3120 over the estate of Glenogil in the parish...
Dates: 1875-1915, undated.