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Answers. Legal documents.

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Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Written pleadings given in to a court usually in reply to a claim. Source: Gibb (A D). 'Students' glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946.).

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Documents, including accounts, petitions and memorandums, of George Skene and John Skene of Halyards., 1666-1752.

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Identifier: Acc.12092/6
Scope and Contents Contains:144. Account between John Skene of Halyeards and Mr Thomas Skene, 1690-99. 1700.145. Testament dative of Mr Thomas Skein, advocat who deceased November 1700. Inventory given up by Beatrix Hepburne his relict. [part torn away] after 16 August 1701.146. Copy disposition by Elisabeth Ker, relict of Mr Christopher Irvein, Dr of medicine in. Edinburgh to her son, John Irveine of a bond for 1200 merks granted by Sir William Ker of Greenhead, Kt, Bt...
Dates: 1666-1752.

Legal and financial papers of the regality of Dunfermline., 1567-1730, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14770
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Localities, stipends and gifts of pension, 1567-1698, undated (folio 1);(ii) Precentorship and church affairs of Dunfermline, 1640-1730 (folio 48);(iii) Teinds, 1675-1701, of Pittencrieff disponed by the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline to Alexander Clerk of Pittencrieff (folio 97);(iv) Teinds, 1693, of Cluny and Lugton (folio 118);(v) Answers and memorials, 1738-1742, in relation to a reddendo claimed to be...
Dates: 1567-1730, undated.

Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates: 1231-1641.

Material deposited with George Hogarth, Writer to the Signet, relating to the dispute between Robert Cadell, publisher of the Waverley Novels, and Ballantyne and Company, printers, about the quality and price of the printing of ‘Guy Mannering’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1829-1830.

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Identifier: MS.6290, folios 173-219
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Copies of correspondence between Robert Cadell and Ballantyne and Company (folio 173), and of a letter, 1829, of Ballantyne and Company, appealing to the proprietors of the Waverley Novels (folio 193);

A draft of a Memorial of Ballantyne and Company, presenting their case (folio 201), and the answer of Counsel, signed John Hope, 1830 (folio 213).

Dates: 1829-1830.

Opinions and answers of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, to memorials., 1738-1746.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.25
Scope and Contents

Contains copies of charters of the 15th century at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: 1738-1746.

Papers and accounts concerning the University of Saint Andrews., 1438-1630.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.7
Scope and Contents Most of the papers relate to, or resulted from the various Royal Commissions to Saint Andrews University in the late 16th century. Copy of the statutes of the Faculty of Theology, 1438; in Latin (folios 1-8). - This has been printed from other manuscripts in Hannay, page 112.Transcript, 1570, of the statutes of the Faculty of Arts, signed by John Rutherford; in Latin (folios 9-15). - This has been printed from another manuscript in Hannay, page...
Dates: 1438-1630.