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Law (Scotland)

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

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Records of Campbell Campbell W.S. Solicitors

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-126
Scope and Contents

The records are composed of: private ledgers; ledger balances; exchequer business; letter books; and, correspondence on conveyancing.

Dates: 19th century-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Road to Equality, Mar 1998

 piece
Identifier: GD61/11/2/2/46/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: Mar 1998
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings / Gay Scotland Issue 125

Story about Lord Macdonald's heir and the MacLeans of Bororay, 10 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/56
Scope and Contents Story about Lord Macdonald's heir and the MacLeans of Bororay [Boraraigh/Boreray] that the MacLeans looked after the heir from when he was born until he was seven years old, when he was returned home 'with a fold of cattle 12 milk cows and a bull' for which MacLean of Boreray got a new lease 'of 3 nineteen y[ea]rs'. The story tells how MacDonald reminded MacLean that he had to find a fold of cattle, MacLean reminded him that he had nineteen years of a lease to run, whereupon MacDonald cursed...
Dates: 10 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Student notes of lectures by Baron David Hume

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1534
Scope and Contents The first manuscript page of Volume 1 states, 'Notes taken from the Lectures of Mr. D. Hume, Professor of Scotch law in the University of Edinburgh, delivered in the years 1814 and 15'. The first page is dated 26 October 1814.The four volumes contain chapters or sections headed, e.g. Introductory lecture; Husband and Wife; Parent and child; Guardian and ward; Guardians to Idiots and Furious persons; Master and servant; Distinction of things; Contract of sale; Contract of Location...
Dates: 1814-1815
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Student notes on Scots Law taken down by David Monro Binning, 1797

 Item — Box CLX-A-479
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0109
Scope and Contents

This is a notebook containing manuscript student nots on law, taken down by David Monro Binning in 1797 at the University of Edinburgh.


The notes cover the following chapters, as listed on the title page: "Man and Wife / Parent and Child / Tutors and Minors/Curators / Master and Servant".

Dates: 1797
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Three volumes of manuscript student notes on lectures presented by David Hume

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1706
Identifier: Coll-2025
Scope and Contents

Three volumes of student manuscript notes written by unidentified students in Edinburgh, ca 1815-1819, on David Hume's lectures. The volumes do not have main titles, but have section headings throughout, subjects include: feudal rights; charter; instrument of sasine; state of vassal's titles, etc.

Dates: c 1815-1819
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Volume of manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh, 1811

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0035
Scope and Contents This is a volume entitled "Notes of Hume's Lecture's", containing manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh. Dated 1811, taken down by an unknown student.Headings include: "Introduction" (ff. 1-9), "Of marriage" (ff. 9-70), "Relation between Parent & Child" (ff. 70-101), "Of Relation between Minors and their Tutors and Curators" (ff. 102-157, including a section on "Curators to...
Dates: 1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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