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Petitioner contests Lord Ordinary’s ruling upholding £400 per daughter from £1200 legacy, arguing testator’s fixed total limits claim to that sum, not per-daughter amounts.

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Answers by Patrick Maitland of Freugh and his Tutor ad litem, Defenders, to the Condescendence for William, &c. Maitlands and their Tutors and Curators, Pursuers, responding that the pursuers have not sufficiently averred facts entitling them to judgment.

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Pursuers seek declaration that a 1810 holograph letter is valid, countering Defender’s deathbed claim with evidence of grantor’s health and public duties before death.

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Information of Mrs Jane Maitland, relict of John Maitland, and others, arguing that a holograph missive is valid and effectual against the heir, and not subject to reduction on death-bed grounds.

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Hugh Tweedale opposes John Wilkie’s petition to recover expenses from pending process, arguing such costs must be claimed within the main action to preserve procedural stability.

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Carnegie & Co. claim rum delivered pre-sequestration was Adam’s stock, but he refused to accept the bill; trustee counters delivery occurred before insolvency and entry was delayed.

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Bill of Advocation by P. Carnegie & Co. against William Hutchison, arguing that the sheriff's interlocutor fails to recognize fraud in the sale of rum to a bankrupt who was about to stop payment

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Answers by the Marquis of Queensberry to the petition of Sir James Montgomery, Bart., and others, responding to the argument that a proof before answer is irrelevant

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Marquis of Queensberry answers petition by executors of late Duke of Queensberry regarding unwarranted leases.

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Condescendence by the Most Noble Charles Marquis of Queensberry, offering to prove facts relating to leases granted by the late Duke of Queensberry, against the executors of the late Duke.