Actions. Judicial events.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Use generally for any proceedings in court brought by one or more persons against another or others, or by the state against a person or persons, to enforce a private right, redress or prevent a private wrong, or to punish a public offense.
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Legal papers of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh., 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7332/Box 1(1-8)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1594, 1672-1834, undated.
Miscellaneous affairs., 1558-1680.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8597-8617
Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
The first page of the manuscript is dated 10th October 1783.
Dates:
1783.
Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh., 1783.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(i)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the following:
(i) Summonses (folio 1);
(ii) Actions of proving the tenor of writs (folio 5);
(iii) Privileged summonses (folio 14);
(iv) Poinding (folio 27);
(v) Adjudications (folio 37);
(vi) Judicial sales (folio 49);
(vii) Arrestment (folio 60);
(viii) Form of process before Parliament (folio 83);
(ix) Form of process before the Court of Session (folio 101);
(x) Form of procedure in declarators (folio 123);
(xi) Reductions and improbations (folio 136);
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Dates:
1783.
Notes of lectures on actions, possibly by Allan Maconochie, Professor of public law at Edinburgh., 1783.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.6.4(ii)
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the following:
(i) Inhibition (folio 1);
(ii) Decision among heirs portioners and division of Runrigg land and commonties (folio 16)
(iii) Court of commission for the plantation of churches and valuation of tythes (folio 33);
(iv) Interdictions (folio 52);
(v) Jurisdictiory of the Judge Admiralty and forms of process in causes that are brought before that court (folio 63);
(vi) Seals and writs, passing them (folio 77).
Dates:
1783.
Printed ‘Case of the Respondents, The Duke of Hamilton, etc.’., [1768.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8275
Dates:
[1768.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning his legal clients.
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Legal papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Dukes of Hamilton, and the Douglas Cause.
Printed session papers, Stott v Murray (state of actions of advocation, etc.), with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1798.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.15
Dates:
1798.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
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Printed session papers with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair.
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Printed session papers, Stott v Murray, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair.
Printed session papers, Stott v Murray, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1796-1798.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.15-7.1.16
Registered bond against, and Act of, the magistrates of Edinburgh concerning Lady Yester`s Kirk., 1659.
File
Identifier: Ch.10846-10847