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Decisions. Judicial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Conclusions or resolutions reached after consideration by a judicial body.

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1692-1695, collected late 17th century, by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.14
Scope and Contents

A volume of Lord Fountainhall’s notes of decisions from 1 November 1692 to 28 February 1695. It is marked by the author ‘P.P’. At the beginning are Thomas Crawfurd’s notes on Buchanan.

At the end is ‘A judgement censure & opinion of sundrie books containing also a collection of some remarkable passages thereof – 1679 – an intimation of the Journal des Sçavans’ (57 pages) by Fountainhall.

Dates: 1692-1695.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected anonymously.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.5
Scope and Contents

The first two leaves seem to belong to the end.

Dates: 1606-1624.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, early 17th century, by Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.11
Scope and Contents

‘Ane minute of some of the most notable decisions before the Lords of Session, 1610-1619’. A neat manuscript in a hand a little after the dates of the decisions.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.4.20).

Dates: 1610-1619.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, early eighteenth century, by Sir David Falconer, Lord Newton.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.10
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (A.5.24).

Dates: 1681-1686.

Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected, late 17th century, by various persons.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.9
Scope and Contents

The volume contains: (i) Nisbet of Dirleton's decisions, 1666-1677; (ii) Newbyth's practiques, 1689-1690; (iii) Oliphant's practiques, 1664-1681; (iv) Acts and decreets of the High Commission for plantation of kirks, 1661-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (a.3.31).

Dates: 1660-1690.