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:
Berwickshire and Roxburghshire., 1631-1711.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11842-11858B
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.7.1.11-7.1.17
Dates:
1796-1811.
Bonds, deeds and other formal documents of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1750-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.8093
Bonds, discharges and related material including judicial papers of the Campbells of Craignish., 1621-1825.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6223/3-7
Dates:
1621-1825.
‘Booke of the lawe of Olerone: as also for the holding of the Courte of the Admyrallte’ by James Humfrey, with lists of English ships and of ships’ stores.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.7
Dates:
1568.
Boon, Corsbie and Carfrae (Legerwood)., 1632-1711.
File
Identifier: Ch.11842-11853
Borthwick of Crookston legal papers, and other documents of Scottish provenance, 1513-1822.
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Identifier: Acc.13043
Scope and Contents
A collection of legal documents, 1452-1943, concerning the family of Borthwick of Crookston and some of their lands in the Scottish Borders, together with seven miscellaneous Scottish documents, 1513-1933, partly issued by the Scottish court. 1-16 Borthwick of Crookston papers1 Charter, 1 Feb. 1452, of King James II, freeing John Borthwick, son of William Borthwick of Crookston, from ward. With seal of James II attached.2 Letter of reversion, 1458, of...
Dates:
1452-1933.
Bound papers and pamphlets on the forfeited estates of Alexander Forbes., 1746-1749.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/204
Dates:
1746-1749.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Papers of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo.
Bound volume of legal prints of Sir David Dalrymple., 1711-1712.
Item
Identifier: MS.25279
Briefs, memoranda, and other legal papers, concerning cases, many of them Jacobite, brought before Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, and James Erskine, as sheriff of Perthshire., 1750-1799.
Series
Identifier: Ch.4448-4490
Scope and Contents
The papers include an abstract of precognitions of the Appin murder, with James Erskine`s notes on it (Ch.4453); royal commission appointing James Erskine a Baron of the Exchequer (Ch.4456); and documents concerned with the attempts of James Erskine, now Lord Barjarg, to settle his affairs after his son John`s death, leaving three young children (Ch.4481-4490).
Dates:
1750-1799.
Buccleuch affairs., 1543-1691.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11256-11312
Bundle of legal documents., Various dates.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4886/7
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1725.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.847-848
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1647-1681.
Item
Identifier: MS.847
Burgh Court Book of Kelso., 1709-1725.
Item
Identifier: MS.848
Business and law papers, 1761-1804, undated, relating to various persons having dealings both with David Herd and with his employer, David Russell; with some inventories of writs, 1643, 1682, 1712., 1643-1804, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1925
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Dates:
1838-1893.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1832-1972, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-164
'Cartulary. I. Family Papers’, in fact containing only copies of a deed of entail by Matthew Cleland of Springfield, 1826, and of related documents., 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.18071
Case of Alexander Lennox Esq claiming the Honour, Title and Dignity of Earl of Lennox., May 1776.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15465
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
May 1776.
Case of Andrew Boyes against the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1830-1836, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1968
Case of John [Bligh, 4th] Earl of Darnley, claiming the Title of Duke of Lennox., 1830.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15466
Scope and Contents
This item is printed.
Dates:
1830.
Case papers for the prosecution case in the impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: Acc.11974
Dates:
circa 1806.
Case papers relating to the litigation in the Court of Session, 2nd Division, between Sir William Elliott and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1819-1829.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11933-11934
Scope and Contents
Except for reports of speeches of the judges (MS.11933, folios 81, 142) and 'Answers for Lord Minto' to the notes of the accountant under remit (MS.11934, folio 139), these are printed Court of Session papers.
Dates:
1819-1829.
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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Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829).