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Legal Documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 182: Composite manuscript containing three texts

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Papers of James Ferguson, 1801-1837

 Sub-Fonds — CLX-A-351: Series Coll-1835/21
Identifier: coll-1835/19
Scope and Contents Various legal documents, including:In folder and bundle 1: Papers relating to the affairs between Walter Scott Esq. (father of the novelist) and James Ferguson, 1801-1811 In bundle 2: Accounts of James Ferguson to the Bank of Scotland for services in connection with...
Dates: 1801-1837
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families

Personal papers, 1804-1870

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/3/2
Scope and Contents 1 Various documents on John Murchison, Col. Donald Murchison, the Glenshiel Affair, Gaelic songs, and monument to D.M. 2 Various documents re Tarradale, c.1810-1820. 3 Various documents re Tarradale, c.1812-1815. 4 Various documents re Tarradale, July 1815. 5 Various documents re Col. RM.McGregor's estate, 1831-1836. 6 Various documents re McGregor, Massie, etc., 1811-1850. 7 Small notebook labelled: 'Early memoranda of old war from...
Dates: 1804-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and his Family / Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

Personal papers of and relating to Kenneth Murchison, 1770-1938

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/2/1
Scope and Contents 1 Reproduction of portrait by Raeburn (advertisement in Connoisseur, November 1938), with letter of Henry Raeburn to K. Murchison, 2 July 1793. The price of the portait was 18.18s.0d. + frame £3.10s.6d. 4 items. 2 Probate of will. 5 fols, vellum. With Extracts, 3 fols. 3 Five certificates in surgery, midwifery, etc., London, 1771-1772. 4 Matriculation of armorial bearings, Edinburgh, Lyon Office, 16 June 1788, with seal, in...
Dates: 1770-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and his Family / Kenneth Murchison

Story about Lochnell and Notary Stewart, 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/221
Scope and Contents

Story about Lochnell and Notary Stewart in which Lochnell wished a hundred years to be added to his lease but Stewart refused saying 'Guile[a]dh am mac nach d rugadh co fad s a thug [th]u daibh'. Stewart did draw up the lease and was noted as living in Appin [An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

University Court, 1644-date

 Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV/CRT
Scope and Contents papers relating to the legal basis of the University: Ordinances, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments etc. (2 volumes) 1583-1809 minutes (draft and final), agenda papers and billets, 1859-present letterbooks (31 volumes) c1872-1919 papers relating to specific legal cases, disciplinary matters etc. University Grants Committee / Funding...
Dates: 1644-date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / University Governance and legal basis of the university

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