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:
Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1682-1745.
File
Identifier: MS.17610
Dates:
1682-1745.
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 concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning Archibald Campbell, the 3rd Duke of Argyll.
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Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton.
Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1746-1751.
File
Identifier: MS.17611
Dates:
1746-1751.
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 concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning Archibald Campbell, the 3rd Duke of Argyll.
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Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton.
Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1752-1762, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17612
Dates:
1752-1762, 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 concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning Archibald Campbell, the 3rd Duke of Argyll.
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Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton.
Legal and tax accounts., 1719-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14672-14673
Dates:
1719-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, or Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
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Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from Scottish merchants and tradesmen, chiefly in Edinburgh and East Lothian.
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Wage, estate and legal accounts, with related papers.
Legal books of the Ker family, many of which belonged to Robert Ker, 4th Lord Jedburgh, and later to George Carre, Lord Nisbet., 1590-1749.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5433-5441
Dates:
1590-1749.
Legal case book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1765-1783.
Item
Identifier: MS.25307
Legal case papers of Judge David A O Edward, QC, with related documents.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10046/1-70
Scope and Contents
Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.
Dates:
1956-1989.
Legal correspondence and papers of John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709)., 1682-1760, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6414-6418
Scope and Contents
MSS.6414-6415 contain general McFarlane correspondence, including (in MS.6414) a small amount of material relating to John McFarlane's father, also John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1678). MS.6415 contains forty-one letters of Duncan Forbes, of Culloden. MSS.6416-6418 contain over 300 letters of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, one of McFarlane's principal clients, as well as letters to him and a few legal papers concerning his affairs. Additional Lovat...
Dates:
1682-1760, undated.
Legal correspondence and papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17881-17882
Dates:
1814-1881, undated.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family., 1766-1771, 1777-1782.
File
Identifier: MS.16755
Dates:
1766-1771, 1777-1782.
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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Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family., 1783-1786.
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Identifier: MS.16756
Dates:
1783-1786.
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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Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family., 1787-1790.
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Identifier: MS.16757
Dates:
1787-1790.
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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Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family., 1791-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.16758
Dates:
1791-1800.
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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Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family., 1801-1806, 1851, 1854, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.16759
Dates:
1801-1806, 1851, 1854, 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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Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers.
Legal correspondence, chiefly of the Edinburgh lawyers of the Fletcher family, John Davidson, Writer to the Signet (1766-1780), his partner Hugh Warrender, Writer to the Signet (1777-1806), and Gibson and Fraser, Writers to the Signet (1851-1854), with the family and other lawyers., 1766-1854, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16755-16759
Legal correspondence, papers and accounts of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 17th century-1923.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15454-15466
Dates:
17th century-1923.
Legal dictionary compiled by Lord Milton., [1747, or after-1753, or after.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17815-17819
Dates:
[1747, or after-1753, or after.]
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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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .
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Works concerning law compiled by Lord Milton.
Legal document written by Sir Walter Scott, as apprentice to his father., 1789.
Item
Identifier: MS.23069, folios 7-8
Dates:
1789.
Legal documents and burgess tickets taken from the papers of Sir Robert Strange and Andrew Lumisden.
Series
Identifier: Ch.10674-10683
Dates:
1614-1785.
Legal documents and commissions from the papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8925-8946
Scope and Contents
An inventory is available.
Dates:
1632-1868.
Legal documents and inventories of writs of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow., 1614-1696.
File
Identifier: MS.9638
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Inventories of writs of Haining and Ballenbreich, circa 1648, of Dunipace and Seabegs, circa 1648, 1654, and of various other properties, 1642-1696 (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers and information, 1651-1683, in the lawsuit between the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (folio 29);
(iii) Informations and legal memoranda, 1614-1696, undated (folio 73).
Dates:
1614-1696.
Legal documents and other business papers, general and miscellaneous, of the Macdonald and Robertson-Macdonald families., 1748-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.3981
Dates:
1748-1800.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
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Legal documents and other business papers of the Macdonald and Robertson-Macdonald families, general and miscellaneous, including some of General James Robertson (died 1845).
Legal documents and other business papers, general and miscellaneous, of the Macdonald and Robertson-Macdonald families., 1801-1859, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3982
Dates:
1801-1859, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
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Legal documents and other business papers of the Macdonald and Robertson-Macdonald families, general and miscellaneous, including some of General James Robertson (died 1845).
Legal documents and other business papers of the Macdonald and Robertson-Macdonald families, general and miscellaneous, including some of General James Robertson (died 1845)., 1748-1859, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3981-3982
Dates:
1748-1859, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.