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Wadsets. Legal instruments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: The conveyance of land in pledge for, or in satisfaction of a debt or obligation, with a reserved power to the debtor to recover his lands, on payment or performance. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'.

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1682-1762, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17610-17612
Scope and Contents

The principal subjects are the settlement of the 2nd Duke's estate; lists of charters to be signed; wadsets; compensation for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions; entail and will of the 3rd Duke; the succession to Archibald Campbell of Inverliver; petitions; and the funeral and biography of the 3rd Duke.

Dates: 1682-1762, undated.

Personal and legal papers of and concerning the Lairds of Inchbraikie, chiefly adjudications and decreets, 1675-1718, concerning the wadset of the lands of Beldhill., 1555-1796.

 File
Identifier: MS.19592
Scope and Contents

The papers also consist of instructions of Perthshire Committee of War, 1639, (folio 8), and commission to Patrick, younger of Inchbraikie, to act as Colonel for the shire of Perth, 1651 (folio 10).

Dates: 1555-1796.