Briefs. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Concise statements of the arguments of a party to a case in dispute, submitted to the court or other body hearing the case.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Arguments of the judges in the Court of Exchequer in the Bankers’ case, 23rd June 1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.5.13
Dates:
1691-1696.
Collection of papers consisting mostly of briefs for various peers in support of their voting as Scottish Representative Peers in the election of 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.8
Scope and Contents
There is a contents list on folio 1.The contents are as follows: (i) brief for the 9th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Abercorn (folio 1); (ii) brief for the 7th Earl of Galloway, 6th Earl of Stair, 13th Lord Somerville and 7th Lord Napier of Merchiston against a petition of the 4th Earl of Selkirk and the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (folio 18); (iii) brief for the same four peers as (ii) above relating to a point in a petition by the 7th Marquess of...
Dates:
?1785-1790.
Papers and report of judgement in a dispute between the College of Justice and the town of Edinburgh, concerning exemption from taxes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.2
Dates:
1687.
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 Royal Scottish Society of Arts, mostly containing printed material, some press cuttings and photographs., 1821-1978, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7619/82-102
Dates:
1821-1978, undated.
Printed papers of the family of Erskine of Alva including statements by parties in legal cases, some parliamentary papers, and letters and instructions of the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving the Fisheries and Manufactures of Scotland., 1592-1825, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5128
Dates:
1592-1825, undated.
Several arguments of all the twelve judges of England in the Court of Exchequer concerning the case of ship money.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.1
Dates:
1638.