Legal documents.
Found in 2020 Collections and/or Records:
Legal treatise concerning to forms of process in Scottish criminal cases.
Legal writs and related material issued against the Earl of Dunfermline and his cautioners., 1637-1659.
Letter-book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with legal notes, and annotated pages of 'Compendium Institutionum Caes. Iustiniani' by Johannes Friderici Böckelmann., 1720-1721, undated.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter book of Lord Milton, 1720-1721 (folio 1);
(ii) Pages 47-112 (wanting 79-80, 89-90, 105-106) of an octavo edition of Johannes F Böckelmann, 'Compendium Institutionum Caes. Iustiniani', covering lib. I, tit. XVIII to lib. II, tit. XVIII, interleaved, with annotations by Lord Milton (folio 20);
(iii) Legal notes by Lord Milton, apparently for his legal dictionary (MSS.17815-17819) (folio 1 inverted).
Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.
The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Letter of William Fullarton.
Concerning his claim to the title of Lord Spynie, with notes of Lord Hailes on the case, and a printed "Additional Appendix to the Case...".
Letterbook of Dugald Bremner's Trust compiled by Dr Bruce Allan Bremner as Trustee to his dead brother., 1863-1880.
A copy of the text of Dugald Bremner's marriage settlement with Miss Maria Louisa Redd of the Breach, Bombay, appears on folios 7-10 and accounts of the Trust on folios 22-29. Much of the correspondence is with legal and financial advisors, but there are some letters to and from Maria Louisa Bremner and her son Bruce G L Bremner in Ceylon.
Letters, 1832-1853, of John Frederick Gordon (afterwards Lord John Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton M.P.) nephew of Lord Douglas Gordon Hallyburton M.P. (Lord Aboyne); and correspondence and legal papers, 1834-1862, concerning the Hallyburton estates., 1832-1862.
Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Letters and other papers of or concerning Louis Liebenthal and his business interests., 1889-1931.
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1921-1931, to Louis Liebenthal from members of his family (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Liebenthal's grain business in Leith, including his Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1889, legal papers, 1893, concerning his dispute with the firm of Frederick Huth and Co., grain merchant, London, and material, 1920, connected with the conversion of his firm into a public company, and its eventual sale (folio 95).
Letters and papers, 1814-1848, undated, concerning Monkrig, and papers, 1879-1881, concerning a petition by John Fletcher of Saltoun to restrict the provisions made by his father for his other children., 1814-1881, undated.
Letters and papers chiefly of George Muir of Cassencarie., 1689-1789, undated.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.
Letters and papers chiefly on the administration and reform of the Scottish law-courts., 1785-1809.
Letters and papers, circa 1833-1838, 1843-1844, 1847, to Anne, Lady Baird, chiefly from James Abercromby, Baron Dunfermline; and letters and papers, 1848-1853, to her sister Catherine Campbell Preston of Valleyfield and Culross chiefly from Robert Haldane of Cloan, Writer to the Signet., [Circa 1833]-1853.
The letters and papers are of a legal character, and may have been part of a larger collection. They are preceded (folio 1) by a circular letter, 1817, of Viscount Palmerston to Sir David Baird.