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:
Printed specifications of patents produced in the case Lobstein versus Randolph and McLellan., Circa 1874.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.38.6.1
Dates:
Circa 1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks of John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, Lord President of the Court of Session, containing full notes of the cases in which he participated both as advocate (criminal cases only, 1841-1858) and judge (civil and criminal cases, 1858-1889).
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: MS.1697
Scope and Contents
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Dates:
[?1768.]
Private legal and financial papers chiefly of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, but also of and concerning his family., 1751-1786.
File
Identifier: MS.25306
Proceedings and notes of arguments in the case of the Earl of Traquair, apparently in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.3
Dates:
1641.
`Proceedings in the Exchequer`, a collection of forms and procedures obtained by Baron Maule `by the favour of Sir Thomas Parkes, Lord Chief Baron`, March 1750., 1750.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.4.3
Scope and Contents
A list (described as `index`) to the ‘general heads’ can be found on pages 255-258.
Dates:
1750.
Proceedings of a General Court Martial on the trials of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, Major Joseph Storey and Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton., 1810.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11671-11672
Dates:
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.
Protection to witnesses given by the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary of the Northern District, Aberdeen., 1701.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2029
Purchase by John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, from Simon Fraser, 3rd of Inverallochie, of Ferintosh [including Kinkell] in 1669, and Bunchrew in 1673; with other dealings of Forbes with Inverallochie, and of Inverallochie with other persons., 1669, 1673.
File
Identifier: Ch.1864-1882
Rearranged copy, late 16th century-mid 17th century, of Sir James Balfour of Pittendrigh, 'Practicks’., [Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.6.3(c)
Scope and Contents
Volume containing the alphabetical rearrangment of Sir James Balfour’s ‘Practicks’, with an 18th century index (folios 8-207; iii-xvii). It is prefaced by ‘The ordoure of Chancellarie’ section (folio 1). It is followed by ‘Schiplawis elected further of alcheron… Anno 1543, 1557’ (folio 209) and ‘The lawes of the merches betwixt Scotland and Ingland, 1590’ (folio 232); these are not the Balfour passages on these subjects, which appear in their proper places in the main section. The border...
Dates:
[Circa 1579], 1638, 18th century.
Records of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh., 1517-1884.
Series
Identifier: MSS.216-277
Dates:
1517-1884.
Referral to arbitration by trustees of James Marshall W.S. and of General John Fletcher Campbell of dispute concerning a bond of the road trustees in Stirlingshire., After 1806.
Item
Identifier: Ch.14745
Regality of Dunfermline., 1587-1753.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.12357-12445
'Regulae Iuris’, an alphabetical list of legal terms, etc., chiefly Latin, compiled by Lord Milton., Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17824
Scope and Contents
An index to legal works is on the inverted folios.
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning law .
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Works concerning law compiled by Lord Milton.
Rental of the lands of Kintail, Lochalsh, Loch Carron, and others belonging to Seaforth made for Edwart Burt.
File
Identifier: Acc.8203
Dates:
1726.
Rentals and related papers, lawyers' accounts, memoranda, inventories, roup rolls etc. of the Sunderland Estate., 1780-1816.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6223/12
Dates:
1780-1816.
Rentals, plans, and lawyers' accounts, 1805-1834, for the estates of Strowan, Cowgask, and Cultybraggan, and legal papers, 1786-1883, and miscellaneous estate receipts, 1808-1835, undated, for Strowan estate., 1786-1883, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10913
Dates:
1786-1883, undated.
‘Repertory’ of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, Lord Justice Clerk.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.2
Dates:
17th century.
`Riettarbætur Noregs Kónga.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
1. A copy of the `Bualög` (Leges Oeconomicorum);
2. Commentary on some obscure passages of that code;
3. Glossary of old words found in the Law Code of Iceland.
Dates:
18th century.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1713-1775.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1528-1529
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1693-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.1528
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of the following: Baird of Newbyth, 1768; Cheap of Sauchie, 1753; Dempster of Pitliver, 1693, 1695; Falconer, 1764; Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore, 1760; Montgomery, 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1770; All these are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.
Dates:
1693-1770.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1713-1775.
File
Identifier: MS.1529
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of the following: Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, 1775; St Clair of Sinclair, 1751; Stewart, 8th and 9th Earls of Moray, 1739-1767; Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland, 1751; Wright of Cliftonhall and Kersy, Alexander Gibson, 1761-1762; Young, Dame Jean, née Hamilton of Preston, 1713. All except the last are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.
Dates:
1713-1775.
Rolls relating the Forbes family., 1646-1701
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.2030-2040
"Rules of the procedure of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in North Britain"., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5134
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume, in a different hand, are 'Rules of Proceeding in the Exchequer Office in Edinburgh'.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.