Legal documents.
Subject
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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:
Incomplete translation, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, of Adam Blackwood's ‘Martyre de Marie Stuart’, being the manuscript edited for the Maitland Club as ‘History of Mary, Queen of Scots’, by Alexander Macdonald., Late 16th century-early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3148
Scope and Contents
At the end are copies of an instrument of sasine following on a charter of Queen Mary to William Livingstone of Kilsyth, 1564 (folio 66), and of papers relating to Susanna Bruce and Barbara Livingstone, sister-in-law and daughter of William Livingstone of Easter Greenyards, 1629 (folios 67-67 verso), besides another fragmentary legal note, 1629 (folio 68 verso).
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Informal legal papers of the Ker family, including informations, memoranda and inventories of writs., 1615-1744, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5432
Dates:
1615-1744, undated.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1755, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17515-17517
Dates:
1745-1755, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-June 1746.
File
Identifier: MS.17515
Dates:
1745-June 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745., July-December 1746.
File
Identifier: MS.17516
Scope and Contents
Some of the papers are without exact date.
Dates:
July-December 1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.., 1747-1755, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17517
Dates:
1747-1755, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning public affairs.
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Papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
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Informations, precognitions, certificates, and similar papers concerning prisoners and others suspected of having participated in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Inquest made in the Tolbooth of Montrose of the property of Robert Mill, merchant, burgess of Montrose., 1676.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5769
Instrument of Sasine in Scots.
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Identifier: Acc.9257
Scope and Contents
In favour of William Edger of an annual rent from the lands of Greenhead in the parish of Troqueer.
Dates:
1619.
‘Insula Monae’, an abridgment of the laws of the Isle of Man by John Parr.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.7
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Inventories and other legal papers concerning the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11461
Dates:
1776-1844.
Inventories of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1627-1873, or before.
File
Identifier: MS.5114
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Inventories, 1627-1801, of household plenishings, including an inventory of the furnishings in Buchan Castle, made for and signed by Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar, in 1627, and based on an earlier inventory of 1611. Also included are inventories made at various times of the furnishings of the Erskine houses in Alloa, Barjarg and Drumsheugh. (Folio 1.)(ii) Lists of portraits in the possession of Jean, Lady Erskine of Alva, at the time...
Dates:
1627-1873, or before.
Inventories of titles of the estate of Culloden, and other papers concerning the Forbes of Culloden., 1786-1891.
File
Identifier: MS.21257
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Inventories, 1836-1891, of titles of the estate of Culloden (folio 1); (ii) Notices, 1845-1850, of sale of fishings belonging to the burgh of Dingwall (folio 54); (iii) Miscellaneous documents, 1786-1859, concerning Forbes of Culloden (folio 60).
Dates:
1786-1891.
Inventories of writs, extracts from and copies of deeds (many from published transcripts) and memoranda concerning legal topics, chiefly from the 18th and 19th centuries., 18th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.20
Scope and Contents
The papers are in a variety of hands, some by John Riddell.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Inventory of Pitfirrane writs., 1230-1794.
Series
Identifier: Ch.6001-6836
Scope and Contents
The charter and legal material contained here is of importance as giving the continuous history of a landed family in Fife from the 13th to the 18th century. The Halkett family appear to have risen partly on the decline of the Lochores of Lochore. By 1431, the former are having transumpts made of charters of the early 13th century granted to the latter (Ch.6018-6019).
Dates:
1230-1794.
Inventory of writs concerning Hailes, Morham, Newmills, and properties in Edinburgh and Leith formerly belonging to Sir James Stansfield., 1707.
File
Identifier: MS.25768
John Forbes, protection to John McGillederich, a witness regarding a theft of cattle., 1682.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1784
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1843), containing a few notes in pencil in his hand., 1843.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.40-25.8.41
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’ (Edinburgh, 1843), volume 1: pages i-xlvi, 1-555., 1843.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.40
Dates:
1843.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Printed Books from the Riddell Collection.
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John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1843), containing a few notes in pencil in his hand.
John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’ (Edinburgh, 1843), volume 2: pages 556-1095., 1843.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.41
Dates:
1843.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Printed Books from the Riddell Collection.
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John Riddell`s copy of his ‘Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1843), containing a few notes in pencil in his hand.
John Riddell`s interleaved copy of his ‘Remarks upon Scotch Peerage Law’ (Edinburgh, 1833), containing a few notes and additions in his hand, and four letters, 1833-1834, stuck in at the front and back of the volume., 1833.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.35
John Riddell`s interleaved copy of his ‘Tracts, Legal and Historical’ (Edinburgh, 1835), containing some notes and additions in his hand., 1835.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.39
Journal of Laurence Oliphant of Gask (died 1767)., 1746-1748.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.9.7
Dates:
1746-1748.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask.
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Journal of Laurence Oliphant of Gask (died 1767), covering in greater detail the same events as his son’s journal (Adv.MS.82.9.6), and continuing it more summarily.
'Journal of the Commissioners ... in the case of Duke Hamilton etc.’, being a journal of the activities of Lord Monboddo and David Rae, later Lord Eskgrove, during their enquiries in France., September-November 1764.
Item
Identifier: MS.24590
Dates:
September-November 1764.