Statutes. Legislative acts.
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
14th-century manuscript produced in England containing English law statutes and writs.
15th-century manuscript containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476.
Abridgements, 17th -18th century, of the Acts of the Convention of Royal Burghs.
Act of Parliament 51 George 111 Cap.211, 26 June 1811; with plans of Welltree Meadow, Williamston, Greenhead and two parks of Dubheads; of Sunnyside; and of Ardlttie by John Bell, Edinburgh, 1811., 1811.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
‘Booke of the actis, statutis and ordinances of the Glovers of Kelso anno 1631’ -1746.
The volume contains the statutes of the Incorporation, 1631-1660 (pages 3-9), which are thrice repeated (pages 39, 45, 59), and records the admission of freemen up to September 1746.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Copies, 2nd half of 17th century, of Sir Andrew Gilmour's, selections of Acts of Parliament.
Copies, 2nd half of 17th century, of Sir Andrew Gilmour's selections of Acts of Parliament.
Copies, 17th century, of documents relating to heraldry.
Copies, in two different hands of the 17th century, of the statutes of the Royal College of Physicians of London. The statutes of 1647 (folio 1) are followed (folio 39) by an earlier set of statutes (not those of 1355) which have been emended to conform to those of 1647.
The title and the initials P D occur on folio i.
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
Copy, late 15th or early 16th century, of material, early 14th century-1364, concerning the Parlement de Paris.
Copy of Adv.MS.31.3.18, documents relating to heraldry, made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist.
Translations have been provided with the material in Latin.
Copy of Sir Walter Mildmay`s statutes of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Forty-four statutes, followed by a list of their titles., 1585-1588.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.
The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.
Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 1702-1706, reported, early 18th century, by Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall., 1702-1706.
‘MS. C. – Decision of the Lord of Council and Session from June 1702 till February 1706’.
‘At the other end of this volume, reversed are copies of Acts, Decreets and Informations, in several cases, chiefly between the years 1677 & 1682, extending to page 304.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.2.10).
Early 15th-century manuscript containing copies of English law statutes, including the 'Magna Carta' and the 'Statuta Lincolni'; 'Prerogativa regis'; 'Consuetudines Londoni'.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
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).