Legal Documents
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
18th century and 19th century legal documents some in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
Fonds — Box CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1553
Scope and Contents
The collection of legal documents is composed of:
1 x Discharge by William Pirie in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex Blake, 15 May 1890. Of a Bond and Disposition in Security of £400 over subjects in Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart SSC Edinburgh
1 x Disposition by Thomas Fairweather Weir with consent, In favour of Sophia Jex Blake MD. 1884. Subject 6 Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart...
Dates:
1786-1890
Birth certificate for Mary Dorothea Geikie, 1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/2
Scope and Contents
Birth certificate for Mary Dorothea Geikie, the birth being registered by her father, James Geikie.
Dates:
1893
Certificate of Right of Burial, 1910-1915
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/3
Scope and Contents
Certificate of Right of Burial in the Metropolitan Cemetery, Mornigside, Edinburgh, purchased by George Ramsay Geikie in 1910 together with receipt for headstone erected following the death of James Geikie in 1915.
Dates:
1910-1915
Collection of 65 Scottish charters and other documents, from 1402 to 1699, in Latin and Scots, some with seals
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1242
Scope and Contents
The collection of 65 Scottish charters and documents, on vellum and paper, is composed of the following:
Charter between Alexander, Abbot of Scone, entirely in Early Scots, on vellum, dated 21 August 1402, 270mm. by 160mm., with the suspended complete wax seal of Katherine Paxton.
Charter of Robert Logy, burgess of Perth, to Andrew Charters, of lands in Perth, in Latin, on vellum, dated 4 June...
Dates:
1402-1699
Facsimiles of Scottish Charters and Letters prepared by Sir William Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1418
Scope and Contents
The facsimile charters are loose and are numbered at rear from 1 to 288. A few are missing, and these are, nos: 37, 50, 89, 110-111, 136-137, 151, 211, and 233.
Dates:
1094-1844
Fragments of a commentary on a variety of court cases, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 182/ff. 1r-2v; 4r-v; 26r-v
Scope and Contents
This section ctains fragments of a legal commentary in French. The four folios are all pricked and lined on both sides, the recto side of the current first folio of the collection being quite dirty and almost entirely illegible. The text itself appears to represent a discussion of a number of very varied court cases or, possibly, even a record of the arguments put forward during those cases. Certain names, possibly those of the persons putting forward those arguments, or deciding the case in...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
'Inventory of the Writs found in the Cabynet in the Lower Bed Chamber of Boggie', being an inventory of the commercial documents stored at Boggie House
Fonds — Box EUA-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1720
Scope and Contents
Folio-sized document, 11ff, of stitched paper, headed 'Inventory Of The Writs Found In The Cabynet In The Lower Bed Chamber Of Boggie. Taken Up The Eighth Day of April [...] In the Presence of Dam Anna Lockhart Lady Boggie, Mr Thomas Hoop [...] and Mr Robert Fenton Minister of the Gospel At Kennoway'.This is an inventory of the commercial documents stored at Boggie House, relating to the administration of the Boggie estate in the latter part of the 17th century and the first quarter of the...
Dates:
1719
Legal documents, 1544-1859
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1383/1
Scope and Contents
Series of legal documents such as charters, contracts, bonds, documents relating to debts, rent books, and collections relating to specific families.
Dates:
1544-1859
Note about a bond, 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/208
Scope and Contents
Note about a bond which reads 'Bond John Stewart 7 Jan[uary] 1879 for £500 smug[gling] C Stewart'.
Dates:
1884