Opinions. Legal documents.
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
David A O Edward, counsel's opinions., 1979-1989.
Dean of the Faculty of the Advocates notebooks and draft letters of David Hope., 1986-1989.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1800-1841, undated.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1800-1806.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1807-1819.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1841, undated.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1836.
Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1836-1841, undated.
Files, 1980-1984, relating to IBM and the European Court of justice; including photocopies, [?1981-?1984], of European Court of Justice judgement files, 1956-1980., 1956-1984.
Financial and other papers concerning the Hamilton family., 1717-1767.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Financial papers, 1717, concerning Anne, Duchess of Hamilton (folio 1);
(ii) Papers, 1747-1762, of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton (folio 17);
(iii) Papers relating to the repair of the roof of the Abbey Church of Holyrood, 1757-1758 (folio 196);
(iv) A legal 'Opinion for The Tutors of His Grace, the Duke of Hamilton', 1767, i.e. James, 7th Duke (folio 212).
Judicial Opinions notebooks of David Hope., 1989-1997.
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1469-1818.
The legal documents comprise the following: (i) Acts, 1469-1815 (number 1), number 19 being a record of the head court of the barony of Castlemilk, 1717; (ii) Cases to lawyers, 1761-1812 (number 30); (iii) Opinions of lawyers and others, 1769-1807 (number 43); Queries to lawyers, 1675-1796 (number 47); (iv) Answers on legal questions, 1679-1815 (number 55); (v) Petitions, 1677-1818 (number 71).
Legal opinions and other documents concerning Scottish representative peers.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Legal opinions and other documents relating to the right of the Prince of Wales to be Duke of Rothesay, and to vote at elections of Scottish peers, 1787-1791 (folio 1);
(ii) 'A letter concerning the Scots Peerage', addressed to Captain Alexander Abercromby of Glassaugh, Member of Parliament from Glasgow, 1719, condemning the proposal to make the representation of the Scots Peers hereditary (folio 63).
Legal papers of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Queen`s Counsel, comprising case notes, opinions and related documents.
Legal papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning judicial affairs., 17th century-19th century.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
Letter book of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register.
The topics include the militia, suppression of riots in Glasgow, estate affairs, appointments in the Excise service and advice on points of law. The inverted pages contain opinions on legal cases.
Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.
Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).
Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).