Absolvitors. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: The judgement pronounced when a Court assoilzies [meaning to absolve or decide finally in favour of a defender]. Source: Dewar, A. 'Students' Glossary of Scottish Legal Terms' (Edinburgh, 1946).
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
3rd Lord Hay`s absolvitur from a charge of being art and part in a slaughter., 1537.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10718
'Decreet of absolvitor, Mr. John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, against Kenneth Mackenzies of Seafort Esqr.', 1760.
Item
Identifier: MS.1199
Dates:
1760.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
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Letters and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine.
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Letters and papers of, to and concerning John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, son of John Mackenzie, Advocate.
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Account books of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
File
Identifier: F.R.342
Dates:
1819-1838.
Microfilm of two letter books, 1767-1774, of the agents in Jamaica and Virginia of William Cunningham and Company, merchants in Glasgow, and of a decreet absolvitor, 1778, for the daughters of Alexander Cunningham against William Macredie of Perceton.
Item
Identifier: MS.15524 [Mf.MSS.34]
Dates:
1767-1778.