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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 legal and financial papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.2586-2592
Dates: 1579, 1663-1701, 1834.

Miscellaneous legal documents.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.8920-8924

Miscellaneous legal papers., 1700-1730.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.4334-4391
Scope and Contents Including: the certificate of admission of Sir John, 3rd Baronet, to the Faculty of Advocates (Ch.4334); burgess-tickets, mostly in favour of Sir John; the act of admission of Sir John to the Royal Company of Archers (Ch.4356); passport, in Russian, issued from St Petersburg (Ch.4370); depositions and information regarding riots in Glasgow (Ch.4371-4373); proclamation, signed by Townshend and sent to Charles Erskine as Solicitor General at the beginning of the new reign, ordering prayers to...
Dates: 1700-1730.

Miscellaneous legal papers of, and concerning, members of the Keith family., 1546-1833.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21178-21179
Scope and Contents

The papers include a minute, 1599, of the Barony Court of Keith Marischal; bond, 1642, concerning Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh; and papers concerning the claim of the Keiths of Dunnottar and Ravelston as heirs of the Earls Marischal.

Dates: 1546-1833.