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 papers of, and concerning, members of the Murray family., 1729-1854.
File
Identifier: MS.21109
Dates:
1729-1854.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Miscellaneous legal papers of, and concerning, members of the Murray family.
Miscellaneous legal papers of the estate of Avoncrook., 1712, 1851-1854, 1938j.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6275/124-126
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1712, 1851-1854, 1938j.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
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Papers, concerning the estates of Avoncrook, containing legal papers, plans, correspondence and other related material.
Miscellaneous legal papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies., 1683-1919, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9964
Miscellaneous legal papers of the Halkett and Wedderburn families, including inventories of writs., 1582-1837, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6481
Dates:
1582-1837, undated.
Miscellaneous legal papers relating to properties of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth in Perth., 1544-1871.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15258-15318
Miscellaneous letters and papers, copies of charters, unsigned poems, etc., 1320-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.1507
Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bengal Government., 1808-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11600
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies of depositions from victims of dacoits, 1808-1809, taken before William Coates Blaquiere, Acting Magistrate of Nadia (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Thomas Henry Ernst, Third Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal at Benares (Varanasi), 1810, with an enclosed memorandum concerning police administration in the Benares district (folio 12). See also MS.11597.
(iii) Papers, 1810, concerning the enquiry into the conduct of William Brodie, Bengal Civil Service,...
Dates:
1808-1813.
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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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Papers of the Bengal Government relating to the Judicial Department and the administration of law and law enforcement.
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Madras Army., 1769, 1792, 1804-1805, 1809.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11666-11667
Scope and Contents
Includes papers relating to courts martial in 1769, 1792 and 1804-1805.
Dates:
1769, 1792, 1804-1805, 1809.
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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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army.
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Madras Army., 1809-1810.
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Identifier: MS.11666
Dates:
1809-1810.
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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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army.
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Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Madras Army.
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Madras Army., 1769, 1792, 1804-1805, 1809-1810.
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Identifier: MS.11667
Dates:
1769, 1792, 1804-1805, 1809-1810.
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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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government with and concerning the Madras Government and Army.
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Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Madras Army.
Miscellaneous papers and letters chiefly connected with the two Jacobite risings., 1715-1746.
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Identifier: MS.3142
Scope and Contents
The contents include:Printed matter relating to the '15 (folio 5): Declaration of Prince James Edward, 26 January 1716; plan of the capture of Preston; ‘Act for Appointing Commissioners to Enquire of the Estates of certain Traytors’ (Edinburgh, 1716);Letters of Sir Alexander Macdonald of Sleat and his wife, referring among other things to the kidnapping of Skye men for shipping to America, for which Sir Alexander was blamed, 1739, 1741 (folio 21).The...
Dates:
1715-1746.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Correspondence and papers relating to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.
Miscellaneous papers being largely financial and judicial., 1616-1646.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10783-10820
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly legal, concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline., 1654-1730, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14541
Dates:
1654-1730, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of the Hays of Yester on special subjects.
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Papers concerning the debts of the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and their effect on the fortune of the Tweeddale family.
Miscellaneous papers concerning public affairs., 1612-1699, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7032-7037
Scope and Contents
The papers consist chiefly of copies of speeches, acts, and official correspondence, reports of proceedings of the Council or Parliament, petitions, and papers concerning legal disputes, in some of which the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale acted as arbitrator.
Dates:
1612-1699, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Miscellaneous papers concerning the "Family Library" monograph series of John Murray, publishers., ? 1825-1846.
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Identifier: MS.42612
Scope and Contents
(1) Draft agreement, ? 1825 (watermark) : "Heads of an agreement to be entered into between Mr Murray and Mr Lockhart respecting the Family Library", with an enclosure concerning the payments to be made to Lockhart.(2) Manuscript list, 11 July 1828, of authors and the books that they were to write for the "Family Library".(3) Manuscript list, 14 July 1828, of the proposed order of publication of the first works of the "Family Library".(4)...
Dates:
? 1825-1846.
Miscellaneous papers including legal papers and works probably by Sir William Stuart Walker., [Circa 1840]-1855.
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Identifier: MS.14095
Scope and Contents
The contents include: (i) Incomplete memoir, circa 1840, of the career of Alexander Walker, probably compiled by W S Walker (folio 1); (ii) Legal papers, 1845, 1848, concerning James Erskine, Aberdona against the Globe Insurance Company, and Patrick Tytler, Aberdona against James Brodie, Dunkeld, builder, (folio 36); (iii) Draft of letter, 1855, to the ‘Scottish ecclesiastical journal’ about the Education Bill of 1855, probably the work of W S Walker (folio 86).
Dates:
[Circa 1840]-1855.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of Alexander Walker and his family concerning family and estate affairs.
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Notebooks, school exercise books and other miscellaneous papers.
Miscellaneous papers largely judicial., 1653-1691.
File
Identifier: Ch.11275-11312
Miscellaneous papers, largely judicial., 1661-1729.
File
Identifier: Ch.11391-11440
Miscellaneous papers, mostly concerning ecclesiastical, legal and genealogical subjects., 16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Inventory of writs, `Anent ye baronie of Tyllebulalb and redemptione thairof be James Strathay of Carmyle and lairdes of Skene`, 16th century (folio 1).(ii) 4 letters of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres, to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, 1743, and undated (folio 4).(iii) `Scroll of a Speech on an Overture transmitted by the [General] Assembly [of the Church of Scotland to the Presbyteries] anent...
Dates:
16th century, 1743, 1773, 1776, 1844, 1855.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes., 1808-1954, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10604-10657
Dates:
1808-1954, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1855-1915, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25652-25664
Miscellaneous papers of Andrew Hunter., 1697-1890, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19733
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Rules for a horse race to be run in the Isle of Man to celebrate the birthday of James, Lord Strange, 1697. This race was inaugurated by the Earls of Derby as Lords of Man probably in the mid 17th century. With the ending of the Derby regime in the 18th century the races fell into abeyance. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Miscellaneous papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside, 1810-1853, including minutes of the Carse of Cowrie Agricultural Club, 1835, and Report to the...
Dates:
1697-1890, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Catherine MacLeod., 1824-1874.
File
Identifier: MS.19307
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts concerning Duncan MacLeod and his children, 1824-1830, 1833-1841, with statements of Catherine, 1825, and Duncan, 1830, regarding their financial affairs (folio 1);(ii) Papers of the executry of Donald MacLeod, 3rd of Geanies, and Catherine's correspondence with the executors regarding their accounts, 1833-1835 (folio 22);(iv) List of family paintings in Duncan MacLeod's London residence in 1855, compiled by...
Dates:
1824-1874.
Miscellaneous papers of Christian Dalrymple., 1793-1838, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25498-25499