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:
List of appeal cases in the House of Lords.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.2
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Literary papers, mostly correspondence and typescripts, of Michael Brander.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13520/1-68
Dates:
1953-2006.
Lords Lovat and their lands., 1602, 1636, 1686.
File
Identifier: Ch.1646-1648
Lordship and Barony of Yester, and Earldom of Tweeddale., 1585-1662.
File
Identifier: Ch.11498-11524
Manuscript, circa 1560, of the Regiam Maiestatem, burgh laws, statutes, Quoniam attachiamenta, De judicibus, forest laws, and various smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.9
Scope and Contents
For the suggested date of the manuscript see folio 283. Sections (xxvi) and (xxxvii) are in different, later hands. The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem`, in 4 books of 41, 75, 37, and 57 chapters with table at the beginning of each book (folio x). Book 4 is in Latin. Folio 47 blank.(ii) Various laws (folio 48).(iii) `The Lawis of the burgh` in 120 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 49). (iv)...
Dates:
1249-late 16th century.
Manuscript copy of a legal opinion sought by John Murray III following his refusal to publish an article, "The Jesus of History", by Charles Appleton, in the periodical "The Academy"., Before 25 October 1870.
Item
Identifier: MS.42607
Scope and Contents
The opinion has been given by Roundell Palmer and H.R. Droop.
Dates:
Before 25 October 1870.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers concerning the periodical publication, "The Academy".
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Papers concerning a dispute between John Murray III and Charles Appleton over the decision not to publish an article, "The Jesus of History", in the periodical "The Academy".
Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1767-1768.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5356-5360
Dates:
1767-1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Manuscript entitled ‘Decreet Robert Riddle of Glenriddle Against John Fraser and others, 1770, Alexr Pierie’., 1770.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.13 (II)
Manuscript entitled ‘Durers practiqs’ [i.e. Durie’s practicks]., 1621-1630.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.13 (I)
Manuscript legal papers, chiefly draft of the Act and opinions for the trustees., 1830-1838.
File
Identifier: MS.16804
Dates:
1830-1838.
Manuscript of Andrew Stuart entitled 'Memoire à consulter' with 'Observations' by French lawyers., 1762.
Item
Identifier: MS.8272
Dates:
1762.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning his legal clients.
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Legal papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Douglas Cause.
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts; with three items formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16497-16498
Dates:
[Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, and burgh laws, written in 1439.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Table for the volume (folio 1). The sections appear in the order (ii)-(iv), (vi), (v), (vii). Single leaves are lost before folio 1 (for section (ii), part 1 and part 2, chapters 1-9) and folio 12 (for section (v), chapters 109-154).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 3 parts of 34, 114, and 64 chapters (folio 13). ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 233-277.(iii) ‘Quoniam attachiamenta` in 95 chapters (not...
Dates:
?14th century-1439.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie., [Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16497
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written about 1500. Section xxii is an addition of the mid-sixteenth century.The scribe gives his initials D (or David) de B in explicits on folios 14, 52, and 57, and writes his name out 'David Baldovy' on a stub after folio 202.The contents are as follows:
(i) 'Ad componendum cartas'. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Exceptiones contra cartam. (Folio 1 verso.)(iii) 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. (Folio 2.)(iv) 'Regiam...
Dates:
[Circa 1500], mid 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, all in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is imperfect at the end; and sections (i) and (ii), which belong after section (xvii), have been misbound.The contents are as follows:(i) `Statuta regis Jacobi secundi` (folio 1). The beginning is lost; see section (xvii). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, ii, pages 31-52.(ii) `Ye statutis of ye law of march mayd be erll villȝham of Douglas`, 1448 (folio 3). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page 350.folio 5 verso...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘De judicibus’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, written in the early 16th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Ad componendum cartas’, ‘Exceptiones contra cartas’, and ‘Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum’ (folio 1).(ii) 11 verses, beginning ‘Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen’ (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv), and table for section (iii) (folio 4).(iii) ‘Regiam Maiestatem’ in 4 books of 36, 75, 34, and 68 chapters (table in section (ii)) (folio 10). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i,...
Dates:
?14th century-early 16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th century.
Manuscript of the speech concerning the Douglas Cause made by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, in the Court of Session, 11th July 1767., 1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.5355
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Lord Hailes himself, and was apparently compiled from the notes he actually used on that occasion (see marginal note on folio 11 verso).
Dates:
1767.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection., 14th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
'Mariscat 2008-2012', including correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works by the Mariscat Press., 2008-2012.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14068 Box 1(1)-(23)
Marriage-contracts and related documents., 1488-1883.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10322-10365
Scope and Contents
CH.10322-10349 mostly concern the family of Kinninmond of Kinninmonth.
Dates:
1488-1883.