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Minutes. Legal documents.

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Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Documents forming part of a process by means of which a party (or parties, jointly) defines his position as to certain procedural matters as, for example, by amending his pleadings, by referring to the oath of his adversary or by abandoning the action. Source: Gibb (A D). 'Students' glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946.).

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous legal papers in a volume bearing the name 'Spotiswoode' and the date 1701., 1540-1701.

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Identifier: MS.2941
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'The remanent of Mr. David Ayttoune of Kingglassie his Prackties, 1540', copy. The leaves are much decayed. (Folio ii verso.) (ii) Balfour's ‘Practicks’, copied, 1645-1646, by Thomas (?)Veatche. (Folio 1.)(iii) 'Ane minit of the airship goods and geir pertaineinge to ane burgess as if the defunct had the samen in his possession in the tyme of his deceise'. (Folio 179 verso.)(iv) 'Ane short treatise and forme of...
Dates: 1540-1701.

Miscellaneous letters and papers of the Bengal Government., 1808-1813.

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Identifier: MS.11600
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of depositions from victims of dacoits, 1808-1809, taken before William Coates Blaquiere, Acting Magistrate of Nadia (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Thomas Henry Ernst, Third Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal at Benares (Varanasi), 1810, with an enclosed memorandum concerning police administration in the Benares district (folio 12). See also MS.11597. (iii) Papers, 1810, concerning the enquiry into the conduct of William Brodie, Bengal Civil Service,...
Dates: 1808-1813.

Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers of Auldbar estate., 1755-[circa 1900.]

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Identifier: MS.15418
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Apprisings, valuations, etc. (folio 1); (ii) Rentals (folio 50); (iii) Papers on roups (folio 93); (iv) Papers on agriculture and forestry (folio 110); (v) Papers on fishing (folio 144); (vi) Papers on dogs (folio 153); (vii) Papers concerning roads (folio 171); (viii) Papers concerning churches (folio 213); (ix) Papers concerning schools (folio 217); (x) Papers concerning prisons (folio 223).

Dates: 1755-[circa 1900.]