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:
Miscellaneous deeds from a collection of papers relating chiefly to Angus.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2056-2058
Dates:
1665-1677.
Miscellaneous documents., 1481-1763.
Series
Identifier: Ch.14965-15207
Scope and Contents
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Dates:
1481-1763.
Miscellaneous documents., 1482-1835.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8340-8411
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.
Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.
Miscellaneous documents from the Lauriston Castle Collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.3-12
Dates:
15th century-1773.
Miscellaneous documents from the Saltoun papers., 1481-1763, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.15048-15207
Dates:
1481-1763, undated.
Miscellaneous documents largely judicial., 1632-1695.
File
Identifier: Ch.11188-11255
Miscellaneous documents, largely judicial and concerning teinds and feus., 1632-1753.
File
Identifier: Ch.12362-12445
Miscellaneous documents mainly concerning a lawsuit arising from the will of Alexander Murray, son of the 4th Lord Elibank., 1830-1899.
Series
Identifier: Ch.4516-4526
Scope and Contents
With a commission in favour of William Erskine Murray, appointing him a Justice of the Peace for Matabeleland (Ch.4526).
Dates:
1830-1899.
Miscellaneous documents relating to Rutherford affairs., 1631-1687.
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Identifier: Ch.11983-12001
Dates:
1631-1687.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers., 16th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.1-80.4.16
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous financial and legal documents., 1618-1687, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12540-12590
Dates:
1618-1687, undated.
Miscellaneous financial and legal papers of the Fleming family., 1524-1792, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20794-20795
Miscellaneous financial and legal papers of the Fleming family., 1524-1698.
File
Identifier: MS.20794
Miscellaneous financial and legal papers of the Fleming family, with a few on public affairs., 1533-1792, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20795
Miscellaneous financial, legal and political papers., 1650-1687, undated.
File
Identifier: Ch.10885-10927
Miscellaneous formal documents, a legal notebook, and personal correspondence., 1800-1877.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7513-7515
Miscellaneous formal documents, and blueprints of engineering drawings of, and concerning, J S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15513-15521
Dates:
1860-1936.
Miscellaneous formal documents from the papers of the Crawfurd families of Kilbirnie and Jordanhill.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17332-17350
Scope and Contents
They include (Ch.17332) copies of two deeds in favour of Paisley Abbey, which may be a leaf from a lost 15th-century chartulary of the Abbey.
Dates:
1319-1734.
Miscellaneous formal documents, mainly Scottish., Of various dates, principally eighteenth and early 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Ch.1381-1440
Scope and Contents
Includes decreets, contracts, discharges, commissions, burgess-tickets, diplomas, etc.
Dates:
Of various dates, principally eighteenth and early 19th century.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to James Skene of Rubislaw.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15501-15507
Dates:
1619-1843, undated.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Keith family, Aberdeen.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17325-17331
Dates:
1469-1732.
Miscellaneous judicial papers relating to Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs., 1629-1719.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25726-25727
Dates:
1629-1719.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Stansfield.
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Papers relating to Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs.
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Papers relating to judicial processes connected with Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs.
Miscellaneous judicial papers relating to Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs., 1629-1683.
File
Identifier: MS.25726
Dates:
1629-1683.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Stansfield.
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Papers relating to Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs.
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Papers relating to judicial processes connected with Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs.
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Miscellaneous judicial papers relating to Sir James Stansfield's financial affairs.