Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: 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. For documents having legal relevance in general, use ""legal documents"" .
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Restoration by Sir John Hope fiar of Craighall S.C.J. and Sir John Carstairs of Kilconquhar to Sir William Forbes of Craigievar, of Glencorse and Saltoun., 17 September 1642.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13634
Three items originally found loose in MS.16497: Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem and other legal texts, but now kept separately., 16th century.
File
Identifier: MS.16498
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) An address panel from a letter to Alexander Arbuthnott, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen;
(ii) An instrument of donation, 1548[-1549], by Katrine Fraser, relict of Robert Forbes, to her brother Mr George Fraser, of all her possessions;
(iii) Fragment of a contract of marriage between Alexander [ ] and Margaret Robertson, mentioning George Fraser, Minister of Durris.
Dates:
16th century.
Two legal instruments and a letter concerning the interests of Thomas Moore in the joint stock and fund of the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Insurance Office., 1821-1828.
File
Identifier: MS.42492
Dates:
1821-1828.
Two legal instruments concerning a bond for £1000 between Thomas Moore and John Murray II., 1821-1822.
File
Identifier: MS.42490
Dates:
1821-1822.
Various agreements concerning the publication of the "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", edited by William Smith., 1845-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.42610
Dates:
1845-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers concerning the publication of the "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", edited by William Smith.
Various legal instruments, including drafts and copies, concerning Thomas Moore, Lord Byron and John Murray II. Included is a letter of Alfred Turner to John Murray III concerning a draft agreement between Thomas Moore and John Murray II relating to the memoirs of Lord Byron., 1821-1853.
File
Identifier: MS.42489
Scope and Contents
Several of the agreements are between Lord Byron, Thomas Moore and John Murray II in respect of the transfer of all rights in Lord Byron`s manuscript, "Memoirs of my life up to 1816", from Thomas Moore, to whom Byron had given the manuscript, to John Murray II.
Dates:
1821-1853.