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:
Marriage contracts of James Fraser Tytler, 1810, and George Skene, 1832, with other papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.5212
Scope and Contents
Comprising papers, 1888-1889, on purchase of Keith Marischal, Humbie, and on its displenishing, 1952.
Dates:
1810, 1832, 1888-1889, 1952.
Marriage contracts, with related legal papers, of the daughters of the 6th Lord Hay of Yester., 1603-1620.
File
Identifier: Ch.10727-10735
Marvingston [Bolton], with inventories of writs., 1566-1707.
File
Identifier: Ch.11561-11584
Memoranda, accounts and other legal papers concerning the financial affairs of the Dundonald family., 1764-1799.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5377-5378
Dates:
1764-1799.
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 affairs of the Earls of Dundonald.
Memoranda, accounts and other legal papers concerning the financial affairs of the Dundonald family., 1764-1782.
File
Identifier: MS.5377
Dates:
1764-1782.
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 affairs of the Earls of Dundonald.
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Memoranda, accounts and other legal papers concerning the financial affairs of the Dundonald family.
Memoranda, accounts and other legal papers concerning the financial affairs of the Dundonald family., 1781-1799.
File
Identifier: MS.5378
Dates:
1781-1799.
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 affairs of the Earls of Dundonald.
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Memoranda, accounts and other legal papers concerning the financial affairs of the Dundonald family.
Memoranda and miscellaneous legal papers relating to Lochgelly and Melgund., 1747-1894.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13295-13296
Memoranda and miscellaneous legal papers relating to Lochgelly and Melgund., 1747-1783.
File
Identifier: MS.13295
Dates:
1747-1783.
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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Estate papers and correspondence of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Lochgelly and Melgund estate papers.
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Memoranda and miscellaneous legal papers relating to Lochgelly and Melgund.
Memoranda and miscellaneous legal papers relating to Lochgelly and Melgund., 1784-1894.
File
Identifier: MS.13296
Dates:
1784-1894.
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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Estate papers and correspondence of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Lochgelly and Melgund estate papers.
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Memoranda and miscellaneous legal papers relating to Lochgelly and Melgund.
Menzies charters and other formal documents.
Series
Identifier: Ch.10634-10647
Scope and Contents
Most of the formal documents relate to members of the family of Menzies of that ilk (formerly Menzies of Weem and Enoch) and other persons of the name; Ch.10647 is a passport issued, 1846, to Sir Hew H. Dalrymple, 6th Baronet, whose descendant, the Hon Sir Hew Dalrymple compiled the collection to which all these papers belong.
Dates:
1503-1695, 1846.
Microfilm of ‘A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:’ (i.e. Robert Mylne).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.198
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1703.
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1565-1569
Dates:
19th century.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.35-53
Dates:
1768-1934.
Microfilm of documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh., 1836-1841, 1881.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1565
Dates:
1836-1841, 1881.
Microfilm of documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1559
Dates:
1668-1857.
Microfilm of drafts of works of George Chalmers; and, papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.137
Dates:
[1811, or after]-1826.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of general correspondence relating to Jamaica, and miscellaneous accounts and legal papers relating to Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2080
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1092
Dates:
3rd quarter of 15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, in Scots, written by one A de D probably in the 1470s.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1109
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of papers of Henry Cockburn Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, concerning the cases of Alexander Cahill, and of Walter Ker of Littledean against James, Duke of Roxburghe.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.139
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1810-1811, concerning the case of Alexander Cahill, surgeon of the second battalion, 25th Regiment of Foot, indicted for murder after killing Captain Hugh Blair Rutherford, of the same regiment, in a duel (Adv.MS.9.1.5);Papers, 1820-1822, of Henry Cockburn concerning the action of oppression and damages of Lieutenent-General Walter Ker of Littledean against James, Duke of Roxburghe in the First Division of the Court of Session and Jury Court...
Dates:
1810-1822.
Microfilm of papers of Henry Cockburn Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, concerning the cases of John Kingan and Robert Watson, and William Henry Bothwick.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.138
Scope and Contents
The content are as follows:
Papers, 1826, 1828, concerning the actions and counter-actions for damages raised by John Kingan, a merchant in Glasgow, and Robert Watson of Linthouse, a Glasgow banker, against each other, initially in the Second Division and later in the Jury Court (Adv.MS.9.1.3);
Papers, 1822-1823, concerning the case of William Henry Borthwick, printer and editor of the ‘Glasgow Sentinel’, indicted for theft (Adv.MS.9.1.4).
Dates:
1822-1828.