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Claims. Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: To demand what is due. Where a proprietor insists for what belongs to them against the person witholding it, they are said to make a claim. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'. 7th edition.

Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:

Papers concerning the Peers of Scotland., 1707-1761.

 File
Identifier: MS.17534
Scope and Contents The papers comprise a list of Peers according to the Rolls of the last Parliament of Scotland, 1707; copy of a petition by them to Queen Anne concerning their right to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of a peerage of Great Britain, 1710; notes of limitations on Scots peerages, 1740; opinion on the succession to Lord Newark, 1741; the Earl of Bute's list for voting at the election of Representative Peers, 1747; ten proxies, signed but not completed, for the same election; two claims to...
Dates: 1707-1761.

Papers connected with the Earldom of Crawford., 18th century, 1808-1834, and undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.7
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of a miscellany of 18th-century papers, some of which relate to Lady Mary Campbell, sister of the 19th Earl of Crawford (folios 1-24), followed by a possibly incomplete collection of letters and papers (including several copies of 18th-century documents) in the unsuccessful claim by Colonel William Claude Campbell to the Earldom of Crawford, 1808-1834, and undated (folios 25-285).

Dates: 18th century, 1808-1834, and undated.

Papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate, and of his clients, and papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of his clients., 1658-1773.

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Identifier: MS.1526
Scope and Contents

Contains papers of the following: Baird, James, Writer to the Signet, 1707; Bourchier, Charles, Governor of Madras, 1773; Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, 1658; Dempster of Pitliver, 1694-1703; Grant of Balindalloch, 1770-1771; Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton, 1758-1759.

Dates: 1658-1773.

Papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate, and of his clients, and papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of his clients., 1611-1797, undated.

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Identifier: MS.1527
Scope and Contents Contains papers of the following: Lentron of Kincaple, 1670-1686; Macdonald of Clanranald, 1727; Macdonald of Sleat, 1767; Macdonell of Glengarry, 1633; Mackenzie of Ardross, 1711; of Dingwall, undated; of Lentron, 1715; of Seaforth, 1698-1700; and another, 1726; Munro of Foulis, 1740; of Inveran, 1678; Monro, James, Bachelor of Medicine, 1714; Robertson of Faskally, 1699, undated; of Killihangie, 1699; of Strowan, 1660; Rose of Clava, 1687, 1713; Ross of Balnagowan, 1611; Sinclair of Forss,...
Dates: 1611-1797, undated.

Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.

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Identifier: MS.11620
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to claims of the military on Amboina (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, to Hugh Hope in Java (folio 116); (iii) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of Directors concerning John Richardson, Political Agent in Bundelkhand, with an excerpt of a private letter from Richardson to the Chief Secretary (folio 121); (iv) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of...
Dates: 1811.

Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1693-1770.

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Identifier: MS.1528
Scope and Contents

Contains papers of the following: Baird of Newbyth, 1768; Cheap of Sauchie, 1753; Dempster of Pitliver, 1693, 1695; Falconer, 1764; Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore, 1760; Montgomery, 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1770; All these are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.

Dates: 1693-1770.