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Legal documents.

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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, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates: 1827-1913, undated.

Legal manuscript, 4 November 1609 to 12 December 1623, containing abstract decisions of the Court of Session, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7938
Scope and Contents

With other legal notes, early 17th century.

Dates: early 17th century.

Legal notebook in shorthand, with references to cases for illustration.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.6
Scope and Contents

Inside the notebook on the board is written ‘Mich[s] Term. 12 Geo. II. 1738. C.B.’

Dates: 1738.

Legal notebook ‘on law and practice’ in shorthand.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.7
Scope and Contents

Subjects on the margin in ordinary writing, remarks in shorthand in centre of page. No name or date.

Dates: 18th century.

Legal notebooks and law books of George Fergusson, Lord Hermand., 1781-1799, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25743-25758
Scope and Contents

George Fergusson was the son of Sir James Fergusson, 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, and a distant relative of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran. He was admitted advocate in 1765 and elevated to the bench as Lord Hermand in 1799. He died in 1827.

Dates: 1781-1799, undated.

Legal notes in two separate series: (i) `Some additional remarks upon the Viscount of Stairs his Institutiones of the Law of Scotland`; (ii) `Treatise of Teynds`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.11
Scope and Contents (i) `Some additional remarks upon the Viscount of Stairs his Institutiones of the Law of Scotland`, compiled following the publication of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the law of Scotland’, probably by or for Robert Bennet (1644-1722), Advocate and Dean of Faculty, whose ex libris appears on the back fly-leaf of the volume.(ii) `Treatise of Teynds`, a collection of forms and styles, acts, decisions and proceedings relating to the teind law and its administration by the Commissioners...
Dates: Circa 1644-1690.