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:
Rutherford debts., 1631-1687.
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Identifier: Ch.11859-12001
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning the purchase of the Barony and Regality of Linton by the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale in 1671, and the assignment to him of Lord Rutherford`s debts.
Dates:
1631-1687.
Scawen and Meade family papers., 1685-1788, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12933-12948
Dates:
1685-1788, undated.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
'Scheme of book-keeping for a writer’, and a collection of drafts and copies of legal documents., 1770-1772.
File
Identifier: MS.24610
Scots law style-book, written by D Bonthrone.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.2
Scope and Contents
The author’s signature appears on folio 69.
Dates:
1702.
Scottish criminal cases, 1716-1760, written in a formal 18th-century hand.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.43
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is inscribed `Baron Hume 1829` at folio 1, and may have been compiled or copied by him whilst a student. It is imperfect, lacking an estimated 84 leaves between folios 56 and 57 (corresponding to pages 111-278 of the original pagination), and possibly a flyleaf or leaves; and the upper board is detached from the binding. There appears to be an unidentified bookplate underneath the pastedown stuck to the upper board.
Dates:
1716-1760.
Sederunt book, 1744-1748, of the Trustees of William Elliot.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5501
Scope and Contents
With household accounts, 1760-1778.
Dates:
1744-1778.
Sederunt book of Trustees of John Macfarlane, possibly of Coneyhill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7823
Dates:
1869-1888.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Series of legal papers relating to the bankruptcy of Hugh Seton of Touch., 1786-1796.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19205
Series of legal papers relating to the bankruptcy of Hugh Seton of Touch., 1786-1789.
File
Identifier: MS.19205 (part 1)
Dates:
1786-1789.
Series of legal papers relating to the bankruptcy of Hugh Seton of Touch., 1789-1796.
File
Identifier: MS.19205 (part 2)
Dates:
1789-1796.
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.27.2.1-27.5.3
Scope and Contents
Adv.MS.27.2.1-27.2.5 appear to have been arranged and bound in their present order in 1680.
Both the series Adv.MS.273.1-27.3.4 and Adv.MS.27.4.1-27.4.4 were collected in 1680.
Dates:
1665-1692.
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1665-1667.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.2.1
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1666.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.2.2
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1666-1669.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.2.3
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1668-1671.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.2.4
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1668-1671.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.2.5
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1671-1672.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.3.1
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1672-1673.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.3.2
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1673-1674
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.3.3
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1674-1676.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.3.4
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1674-1676.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.4.1
Session papers collected by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall., 1677-1678.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.4.2