Skip to main content
Home
  • Login
  • Register
  • Login
  • Register

Main navigation

  • Search our records
  • Help and guidance
  • Certificates and copies
  • Our charges
  • News and features

Legal records


The category 'legal records' refers to records created by Scottish courts of law. They have been indexed by personal name and there are record guides for each record type:

  • coats of arms
  • Military Service Appeals Tribunal records
  • soldiers' and airmen's wills
  • wills and testaments

Start searching legal records.

Back to all guides

Record guides

  • Record guides A-Z
  • Statutory registers
  • Church registers
  • Census returns
  • Valuation rolls
  • Legal records
  • Highland and Island Emigration Society records
  • Prison registers
  • Kirk session records
  • Church court records
  • Scottish Cabinet records
  • Coats of arms
  • Image library
  • Maps and plans
  • Military Service Appeals Tribunal records
  • Soldiers' and airmen's wills
  • Statutory register of births
  • Statutory register of deaths
  • Statutory register of marriages
  • Other statutory registers
  • Wills and testaments

Stay in touch with ScotlandsPeople

Follow us on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

Legal & Accessibilty

Show — Legal & Accessibilty Hide — Legal & Accessibilty
  • Terms and conditions
  • Copyright
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy policy

Helpful Links

Show — Helpful Links Hide — Helpful Links
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Search site
  • Site map
© Crown copyright

A partnership between the National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon

Scotland Records Logo