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 papers of the Berwickshire Liberal Association., 1873-1899.
File
Identifier: Acc.6767/12[91-92]
Scope and Contents
Containing:[91]. Manuscript certified copies and printed accounts of cases and appeals heard at the Registration Appeal Court, County of Berwick, regarding objections to entry on the register of voters, John Bertram Kellie, George Wilson, William Wardrop, Thomas John Dunn, Alexander Hannah and James Breakenridge, appellants against Andrew Shortreed, Archibald Gray, John Cowe, Alexander Maltman, Thomas Cockburn, Thomas Hownam, Robert Gribbes, Thomas Dodds, Robert Coultard, James...
Dates:
1873-1899.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Berwickshire Liberal Association, mostly concerning parliamentary elections but also including broader administrative and financial information.
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Papers of the Berwickshire Liberal Association concerning Parliamentary elections.
Legal papers of the Cameron family., 1672-1901, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9174/36-43
Legal papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern., Circa 1700-1771.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11137/1-14
Dates:
Circa 1700-1771.
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning financial affairs., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15462
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning judicial affairs., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15461
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning miscellaneous land affairs., 1696-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.15464
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning personal affairs., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15460
Scope and Contents
The papers include marriage contracts and settlements, wills, etc.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar including land tacks and assedations., 1755-1789, 1825.
File
Identifier: MS.15463
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1755-1789, 1825.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
File
Identifier: F.R.342
Dates:
1819-1838.
Legal papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1750-1945.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8092-8099
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning parts of the process of Guthrie of Gellie and Fishers of Ayrshire.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/13
Dates:
1632-1633.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case against William Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/14
Dates:
1711-1717.
Legal papers of the family of Douglas, mainly bonds, discharges and marriage contracts., 1588-1713.
Series
Identifier: Ch.4697-4736
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1832.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.5.1-80.5.6
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise formal documents, correspondence, memorials, etc. (including many private papers), concerning legal actions raised by or against family members or their trustees. Most processes, unless described otherwise, relate mainly to disputes with tenants about debts, the terms of tacks, and other complications of tenancy.
Dates:
1655-1832.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1741.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process between John Fairholm of Craigiehall and George Dundas of Dundas concerning the building of a seat in Dalmeny kirk, 1655-1660 (folio 1).(ii) Process at the instance of Jean Dundas of Dundas against George Dundas of Dundas concerning her jointure, 1687-1697, preceded by a typed list of documents (for the final item of which see Adv.MS.80.3.50) (folio 30).(iii) Minutes concerning action by George Wilson...
Dates:
1655-1741.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1758-1785.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of George Dundas of Dundas against Thomas Dundas, elder and younger of Fingask, concerning their respective claims to the headship of the family of Dundas, 1758-1762 (folio 1).(ii) Decreet and account concerning action by James Dundas of Dundas against David Parker in Queensferry, 1762 (folio 92).(iii) Process of Dundas trustees against Margaret Dundas in Craigbrae, 1775-1785 (folio 96).(iv)...
Dates:
1758-1785.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1782-1797.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Process of Dundas trustees against Andrew Young in Gogar Mains, 1782-1788 (folio 1).
(ii) Process of Dundas trustees against George Henderson in Craigton, 1782-1792 (folio 71).
(iii) Process of Dundas trustees against Robert Denham in Westmuir, 1784-1797 (folio 108).
Dates:
1782-1797.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1786-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of Margaret Forbes, Queensferry, and Isobel Forbes, as heirs of John Forbes, Quartermaster of the East Indiaman ‘Stormont’, against Andrew Burt in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and against the tutors and curators of James Dundas of Dundas in the Court of Session, 1786-1797 (folio 1).(ii) Process of Dundas trustees against George Ponton in Overton, 1788-1790 (folio 118).(iii) Process of Dundas...
Dates:
1786-1800.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1798-1812.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of George Mathie, as factor for Dundas trustees, against Andrew Paul, flesher in Edinburgh, 1798-1801 (folio 1).(ii) Process of James Robert, builder in South Queensferry, against the proprietors of the water-passage, concerning repairs to the piers at South Queensferry, 1799-1800 (folio 12).(iii) Writs (mostly copies), 17th and 18th centuries, produced in the process of John Dundas, Writer to the...
Dates:
1798-1812.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1809-1832.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of Alexander Miller, gamekeeper at Dundas, against Mrs Dundas of Dundas, 1809-1812 (folio 1).(ii) Process of James Dundas of Dundas against Archibald Black, sawyer in Queensferry, 1816 (folio 40).(iii) Process of Reduction, Improbation and Declarator, and Count and Reckoning of James Dundas of Dundas against the trustees of James Dundas (died 1780), 1821-1823 (folio 50).(iv) Process of...
Dates:
1809-1832.
Legal papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 16th century-1904, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16755-16807
Dates:
16th century-1904, undated.
Legal papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1607-1930.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27528-27533
Legal papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1607-1746, undated (17th century).
File
Identifier: MS.27528
Dates:
1607-1746, undated (17th century).
Legal papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1751-1769.
File
Identifier: MS.27529
Legal papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1771-1793, undated (18th century).
File
Identifier: MS.27530
Dates:
1771-1793, undated (18th century).