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:
Parishes of Stobo, Glenholm, Drumelzier and Tweedsmuir., 1426-1679.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12210-12356
Parishes of West Linton, Newlands and Eddleston., 1580-1687.
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Identifier: Ch.11859-12047
Peebleshire and Selkirkshire., 1426-1687.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11859-12356
Personal and legal papers of and concerning the Lairds of Inchbraikie, chiefly adjudications and decreets, 1675-1718, concerning the wadset of the lands of Beldhill., 1555-1796.
File
Identifier: MS.19592
Scope and Contents
The papers also consist of instructions of Perthshire Committee of War, 1639, (folio 8), and commission to Patrick, younger of Inchbraikie, to act as Colonel for the shire of Perth, 1651 (folio 10).
Dates:
1555-1796.
Personal and legal papers of the military family of Graeme of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven., 1555-1906.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19592-19594
Personal and public affairs., 1460-1959.
Series
Identifier: Ch.10685-11031
Personal papers of James Leslie Mitchell., 1901-1935, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-2
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/18
Dates:
1827-1829.
Petitions and Answers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the admission of Robert Forsyth, teacher of civil law in Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/16
Dates:
1790-1791
Photocopies of documents concerning the trial of six bakers of the Canongate for supplying bread to the Jacobite army.
File
Identifier: Acc.7634
Dates:
1745.
Photocopies of papers concerning the Omay family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7004
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. Paper, 1750, in a case between Duncan Omay of Kilchumkill and the 3rd Duke of Argyll
2. Letter and account, 1801, of John Forbes to Messrs Moddy and Omay, concerning collection of debts of a Scottish business in the United States
3. Letter, 1813, of Hector Macneill to Samuel Omay
4. 19 letters, 1813-1836, of John Galt to Samuel Omay.
Dates:
1750, 1801, 1813-1836.
Photocopy of the first page of the indictment at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, inscribed with the signatures of the prosecuting counsel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9061
Dates:
1945.
Photographs and translations of documents concerning the trial of George Buchanan by the Inquisition at Lisbon.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.9
Scope and Contents
Photographs of five documents connected with the imprisonment, trial, sentence and release of George Buchanan by the Inquisition in Portugal, 16 August 1550 to 28th February 1552, with descriptive notes (typewritten) by Guthrie.
Dates:
1550-1552.
Photographs of the will of James Balfour, and a valuation of his property.
File
Identifier: Acc.6391
Dates:
1841.
Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1719-1760, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14521
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the following:(i) 'Instructions for preparing a case for the Duke of Hamilton touching his peerage as Duke of Brandon & c. and proceedings in the House of Lords on the Duke of Queensberry petition’ 1719 (folio 1);(ii) Printed recommendations to the King by the commissioners for securing the peace of the Highlands concerning the provisions of schools in the Highlands, 1716, with a manuscript, 1733, 'Memorial concerning the provisions made by...
Dates:
1719-1760, 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 individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum., 1717-1760, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14503-14523
Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1776-1806, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11193-11208
Portions of drafts, extracted during the process of revision and contraction, and apparently unprinted, of the ‘Case for the respondents’, in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
File
Identifier: MS.5360
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
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Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
File
Identifier: MS.5357
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
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Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
File
Identifier: MS.5358
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
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Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
File
Identifier: MS.5359
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
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Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Portions of drafts of the 'Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail., 1768.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5357-5360
Scope and Contents
MSS.5357-5359 contain a number of portions of drafts, all later than September 1768, written chiefly in the hands of clerks, but considerably revised by Andrew Stuart and others. Details of these drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version, will be found in a note at the beginning of MS.5357. The drafts show a continuous process of revision and contraction, leading up to the final printed version. MS.5360 contains portions extracted during...
Dates:
1768.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Manuscript drafts of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail.
Practicks and other legal papers, written by John Thomsone, 1657., 1592-1653.
File
Identifier: MS.2712
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Practiques of the Lords of Session'. According to a note, “they appear to be President Spotswoods tho' in some things different”; see Hector McKechnie, 'Practicks, 1469-1700', in ‘An introductory survey of the sources and literature of Scots law’, ‘Stair Society’, volume i (1936). (Page 1.)(ii) A version of Haddington's Decisions, 1592-1593; see also MS.2707. (Page 155.)(iii) Copies of statements in the process begun by the...
Dates:
1592-1653.
"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11941
Scope and Contents
Contains:
1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"
2 "Practickes re Land", 1666
3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.
Dates:
circa 1666-1669.
Precept of dare constat by William Ker in favour of John Shiel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3865
Scope and Contents
Concerning lands of Kirknowe, Roxburghshire.
Dates:
1717.