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Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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 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 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 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 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.