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 papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1830-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.266(ii)
Dates:
1830-1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Lauriston Castle collection.
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Records of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh, including deeds and other legal documents, boxmasters' accounts, extracts from the minutes, memoranda and reports.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh.
Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh, including deeds and other legal documents, boxmasters' accounts, extracts from the minutes, memoranda and reports., 1569-1884, 1913, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.254-277
Scope and Contents
The later papers consist almost entirely of tradesmen’s bills and receipts.
Dates:
1569-1884, 1913, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Oliphants of Gask, including personal and estate accounts, papers on the sale of trees, on building and quarrying work, on road works, and on a lawsuit concerning the estate of Strowan., 1785-1834, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.82.4.11
Dates:
1785-1834, and undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Oswald family., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9041-9042
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
Miscellaneous papers relating to Orkney., 1433-1898, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19395
Scope and Contents
The papers being chiefly correspondence, including letters of Lady Margaret St Clair and Andrew Dishington, Minister of Stronsay, with some biographical details concerning him of 1898. Also a petition of Christiana Crawford or Moodie for justice against her husband's murderers, 1725, notes on grain exported from Orkney in 1834, and copies of charters and legal documents relating to Orkney 1433-1708.
Dates:
1433-1898, undated.
Miscellaneous papers relating to properties of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth on North Street or North Gate, Perth., 1544-1668.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.15258-15317
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15258-15321
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: charters and sasines of property in North Street, Perth, 1544-1668 (further records of the Incorporation held in the Scottish Record Office - GD1/427 - show that by 1718 the Hammermen had acquired much of the North Street property by purchase from David Moncrieff who in turn had acquired it from Sir William Stewart of Inneruytie) and one for property in South Street, 1781. Also the oath sworn by the Perth Hammermen on the Test Act 1681, in 1682, and extracts from the Burgh...
Dates:
1544-1692, 1781.
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Rennie family and to the firm of John and George Rennie., 1788-1915, 1928.
File
Identifier: MS.19953
Scope and Contents
These papers include the birth certificates of John Rennie's children, typescript copies of some early family letters (photocopies of the originals are in MS.19966, folios 12-52), papers concerning the possible purchase of Phantassie, 1896, 1912, and a history of the firm of J and G Rennie from its foundation to its dissolution in 1862.
Dates:
1788-1915, 1928.
Miscellaneous personal papers of Jan Struther., 1909-1953.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/39-41
Miscellaneous small accounts, discharges, and other legal and financial documents., 1654-1753.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2398-2415
Miscellaneous titles., 1469-1701, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.17021-17042
Dates:
1469-1701, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers.
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Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre papers.
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Titles of the Murrays of Ochtertyre for the Baronies of Ochtertyre, Monzievaird and Fowlis Easter.
Miscellaneous Traill family papers., 1670-1863, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19399
Scope and Contents
The papers include geographical notes and tables; a list of guests at the wedding of Robert Omond and Mary Eliza Traill, 1838; extracts from the journal of Thomas Rickman, the architect, concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, 1811-1819; papers of Traill's executors, 1862-1863; and notes by Traill on fossil fishes found at Skaill, Orkney, published in ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’, volume XV, part 1, 1841.
Dates:
1670-1863, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers., 1757-1932.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15187-15195
Dates:
1757-1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Miscellany chiefly of legal papers., 1768-1847.
File
Identifier: MS.15193
Dates:
1768-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers.
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Miscellany chiefly of legal papers, with several of a financial character, concerning Edward Ellice and his successors as owners of Invergarry, and some other members of the Ellice family.
Miscellany chiefly of legal papers., 1848-1881.
File
Identifier: MS.15194
Dates:
1848-1881.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers.
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Miscellany chiefly of legal papers, with several of a financial character, concerning Edward Ellice and his successors as owners of Invergarry, and some other members of the Ellice family.
Miscellany chiefly of legal papers., 1882-1932.
File
Identifier: MS.15195
Dates:
1882-1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers.
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Miscellany chiefly of legal papers, with several of a financial character, concerning Edward Ellice and his successors as owners of Invergarry, and some other members of the Ellice family.
Miscellany chiefly of legal papers, with several of a financial character, concerning Edward Ellice and his successors as owners of Invergarry, and some other members of the Ellice family., 1768-1932.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15193-15195
Dates:
1768-1932.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellany chiefly of correspondence and legal papers.
Miscellany of legal, financial and other papers concerning the family of Moubray of Cockairnie., 1596-1861, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.16435
Dates:
1596-1861, undated.
Miscellany of papers on various topics, not all identified, including letters, 1811-1860, and undated (folios 1-98), a few printed legal papers, 18th-century (folios 102-127), extracts from public records and notes, almost all undated, many apparently incomplete., 18th century-1860.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.22
Muniments of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., Late 15th century-early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5320-5345
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of miscellaneous legal documents, estate papers, letters, account-books and legal volumes, not only concerning the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance, but also the Crawfurds of Milton; this family was linked to the Stuarts of Castlemilk when Margaret Crawfurd, heiress to the entailed estate of Milton, married Sir William Stuart, 2nd Baronet, of Castlemilk.
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 20th century.
Nine letters of Andrew Stuart.
File
Identifier: Acc.6407
Scope and Contents
With other papers concerning the Douglas Cause.
Dates:
1767-1777.
Note-book of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing copies of documents relating to the claimants of the estate of Stow., [?1850-?1855.]
Item
Identifier: MS.628
Dates:
[?1850-?1855.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
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Note-books of William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, containing correspondence and copies of documents relating to the claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow.