Stamp-Laws. These are laws enacted with a view to provide a revenue to the Crown, by requiring that all contracts, bills of exchange, bonds, deeds, and many other writings of a similar nature, should be written upon stamped paper, a duty being payable to the Crown on every stamp. The stamp-laws, in addition to serving the purpose for which they were enacted, have been of considerable use in checking fraud, and rendering forgery difficult, and supplying means of detecting the one or the other.
Definition source
Bell, William, A Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland, 7th ed. rev. George Ross (Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1861), s.v. “Stamp.” Public domain.
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- Alexander Pagan and James Hunter v. Alexander Wylie — Declarations, 9 Mar 1792
- Alexander Ross v. Kenneth Matheson & Son — Opinion, 19 Jun 1847
- Alexander Ross v. Kenneth Matheson and Son — Answers
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- James Henderson v. John Rowat — Condescendence [2]
- James Muir and others v. The Justices of Peace — Information, 15 Jan 1747
- John Buchanan v. Daniel Fisher — Petition and Complaint, 5 Feb 1824
- John Duguid of Ballochdowan v. Mrs Elizabeth Mitchell or Summers, John Summers, and Janet Kinloch — Answers, 3 Jan 1824 [2]
- John Gardner v. Smith and Wardrobe — Petition, 23 Nov 1773
- John Gardner v. Smith and Wardrobe — Petition, 5 Aug 1774
- Lamb v. Neilson — Petition, 21 Feb 1784
- LETTERS of Hugh Bolton, and Minutes of Road-Trustees, relative to Contract.
- Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell v. Lady Montgomerie and Sir Charles Lamb — Appendix, 16 Nov 1829
- Minute for Janet Watson and husband, compearers.—Given Mr. Barr.—Paisley, 2d January 1830. Revised Answers for urger.
- Petition — Robert Kerr against Inner-House Interlocutor
- REVISED ANSWERS for DUGALD BANNATYNE, and Others.
- Robert Ker v. Thomas Buchanan Drummond — Answers, 30 Sep 1824
- Robert M'Gregor v. Andrew Gibson and John Gibson — Answers, 15 Jan 1830
- The Justices of Peace of the Shire of Stirling, Robert Banks, and the Linen Company or Society of the City of Glasgow v. John Moor and John Ewin — Information, 9 Dec 1746
