Legal Documents
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Scott Moncrieff family letters and legal documents
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1803
Content Description
The archive contains many letters from, to, and between members of the Scott Moncreiff family including Robert Scott Moncreiff of Fossaway and his wife, Susan, and others of the family. The letters are mostly 19th century, some 18th century, and earlier.There is also a quantity of manuscript letters, legal documents, and printed matter relating to the Scott Moncreiffs of Yair and Fossaway, Perthshire... including instruments of sasine, and share certificates, the former in favour...
Dates:
1662-1860
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
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
Unsorted legal documents, 1631-1859
Sub-Series — Box CLX-A-1120: Series Coll-1383/1; Series Coll-1383/2
Identifier: Coll-1383/1/19
Scope and Contents
This section contains unsorted legal documents dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, many on vellum, in English and in Latin. It is mostly composed of instruments of sasine, inventories, charters, registration documents, etc.About a third of the documents seem to be related to the Bennet Family, who lived near Kinross in the 18th and 19th centuries. It consists of inventories of writs, instruments of sasine, charters of renounciations and resignations, and other legal...
Dates:
1631-1859