Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents having legal relevance in general. For documents that give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, use ""legal instruments"".
Found in 2020 Collections and/or Records:
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11019
Scope and Contents
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.
Dates:
1776-1942 and undated.
Genealogy and family documents of the Willison family., Circa 1757, 1855-1889, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-5
Dates:
Circa 1757, 1855-1889, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14750-14756
Dates:
1541-1891, undated.
General correspondence relating to Jamaica, and miscellaneous accounts and legal papers relating to Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.10925
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) General correspondence, 1781-1789, 1810-1834 (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous accounts and legal papers, 1775, 1811, 1815-1818, 1826-1827, (including a slave list of 1816) relating to Ardoch Penn (folio 71).
Dates:
1775-1834.
General legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1807-1855.
File
Identifier: MS.11957
Dates:
1807-1855.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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General financial papers and personal accounts of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet., 1807-1856.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11918-11921
Scope and Contents
Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet, later became Tod, Murray and Jamieson, Writers to the Signet, this correspondence is not included in MSS.11922-11940).
Dates:
1807-1856.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet., 1807-1818.
File
Identifier: MS.11918
Dates:
1807-1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet.
General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet., 1819-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.11919
Dates:
1819-1824.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet.
General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet., 1825-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.11920
Dates:
1825-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet.
General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet., 1836-1856.
File
Identifier: MS.11921
Dates:
1836-1856.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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General legal and financial correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Minto with his principal legal agents, Tod and Romanes, Writers to the Signet.
General papers relating to the Forbes family., 1664-1701.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.2027-2029
Dates:
1664-1701.
General, Yester, and East Lothian estates., 1538-1726.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11498-11829
George Sholto Douglas, son of the Honourable George Henry Douglas, Captain, the Cameronians., 1876-1893.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2627-2629
Gifford paper mill., 1697.
File
Identifier: Ch.11632-11633
Gifford walk mill., 1736.
Item
Identifier: Ch.11638
Hounam., 1663.
Item
Identifier: Ch.11858B
Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn., 1824-1877.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2595-2616
Husbandlands of Yester., 1542, 1582.
File
Identifier: Ch.11559-11560
Icelandic and Danish legal and antiquarian miscellany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.12
Dates:
18th century.
Icelandic law of public assemblies, compiled by Thorsteinn Magnússon, and other legal papers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.11
Dates:
18th century.
Incomplete judicial document concerning the teinds of Oxnam., 1663.
Item
Identifier: Ch.11858A
Incomplete manuscript copy of the ‘Institutes’, of Justinian., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.8
Incomplete manuscript copy of the ‘Institutes’, of Justinian, beginning ‘E cementa Jurisquibus’., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.9