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Law

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

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Professor Sir Thomas Broun Smith

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1250
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of (in many cases simply copies of) cases, reports, drafts, memoranda, off-prints, articles, notes, correspondence, lectures and addresses, news-clippings and other material relating to: Defective consent Illegality of obligations / Illegality and morailty / Illegal contracts Contract code / Contract code - Minors Unjustified...
Dates: 1960-1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of William Grant (c.1701-1764), Lord Prestongrange

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GRA 2
Scope and Contents The front of the volume contains 170 numbered pages titled 'Advices in law respecting ecclesiastical questions.' These are in the form of partially indexed letters written 15 August 1735 to 23 May 1746. The back of the volume contains a subject index to works by 17th century divines David Clarkson, John Flavel, William Gurnall and George Hopkins. This section is 171 pages, and is in a different hand to the front.The pages between the two parts are mostly blank, apart from some...
Dates: 1735-1746; Modified: 1984
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Two manuscript volumes on Scottish law by John Mein, c 1740-1810

 File — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0169
Scope and Contents

Two manuscript volumes on Scottish law. The first one reads 'Treatise on Bills, [written] by John Mein Writer to the Signet'. The manuscript dates from c. 1740 and bears the ink ownership signature of Henry Home, later Lord Kames (1696-1782). The second manuscript just starts with the word 'Case' and describes a series of cases dating from 1760s-1810s.

Dates: c 1740-1810
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Two Volumes Entitled "Equity Precedents"

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2256
Scope and Contents

Two manuscript volumes entitled "Equity Precedents - 1829" and "Equity Precedents - vol. 2". These appear to be handwritten notes about legal cases in the United Kingdom, with templates and commentaries.

Dates: 1829
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Various notes relating to University department expenditures, [c. July 1903]

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/82
Scope and Contents Notes are in various hands, mainly consisting of figures and costs for changes to or expansion of various departments, including the Anatomical School, Physiology Department, Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Chair of Mercantile Law. Also contains a copy of the 'Requirements of the Various Departments in the Faculty of Medicine' drawn up for presentation to the University Court on 30 October 1901. The material is undated, but it likely dates from the period in early July 1903 when...
Dates: [c. July 1903]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Volume of manuscript student notes entitled 'Conveyancing notes - heritable rights', c 1850s-1870s

 Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0010
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume containing notes on law, with annotations in pencil in a different hand. This is the volume 2, starting on p. 293. Volume 1 is missing.


The volume is signed by 'William Thomson', in the same hand as the pencil annotations. The volume is likely to have belonged to him at one point.

Dates: c 1850s-1870s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection