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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:

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 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.