Scottish Court of Session Records

Alexander Wight

Name:

Alexander Wight

Occupation:

Biographical Info:

Biographical Notes:

Son of David Wight, writer in Edinburgh; m. Marion Blyth. Advocate 1754; Solicitor-General 1783-1784; Solicitor to Prince of Wales. Wrote on election law. Friends with Andrew Crosbie. A director of the Ayr bank, and lost money from its collapse.

Wight, Alexander, -1793

Dates of Existence:

1793CE

Associated Cases

Carron Company v. Forth and Clyde Navigation (Advocate for Pursuer)

Alexander v. Montgomery (Advocate for Defender)

Forbes v. Home (Pursuer)

Logan and Others v. An Inner House Interlocutor (Agent)

Andrew Ross and Others v. John Glasford and Company (Advocate for Suspender)

Allan v. Stewart (Advocate for Pursuer)

Shaw v. Fleming (Advocate for Defender)

Alexander Watson v. John Pyot (Named in case documents)

Robert Alexander v. James Chrystie (Advocate for Pursuer)

David Fowler v. Andrew Reid (Advocate for Pursuer)

George Mackenzie v. Henrietta Cockburn (Advocate for Pursuer)

Goodall v. Fleming (Advocate for Defender)

Peters v. Speirs, and Others (Named in case documents)

Clark v. Macgill (Advocate for Pursuer)

Maxwell v. Blair and Others (Advocate for Defender)

Mackies v. Houston and Others (Advocate for Defender)

Dunlop, and Other Trustees of Carlyle and Co v. Spiers and Others (Advocate for Defender)

M'Lehose and Others v. Parks (Advocate for Petitioner)

Parish, &C v. Khones (Advocate for Defender)

Aitken and Others v. Wilson and Bannatyne (Advocate for Defender)

Alexander Spiers and Others v. Thomas Dunlop and Others (Advocate for Pursuer)

Heron v. MacLellan (Advocate for Defender)

Duncan v. Maclintock and Smith (Advocate for Pursuer)

Dunlops, and Others v. Spiers, and Others (Advocate for Defender)

Abraham Delvalle, and Others v. The Creditors of the York-Buildings Company (Advocate for Respondent)

Reid v. Cunninghame (Advocate for Charger)

Associated Locations

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