Scottish Court of Session Records

Robert Bruce, of Kennet, Lord Kennet

Name:

Robert Bruce, of Kennet, Lord Kennet

Occupation:

Biographical Notes:

Son of Alexander Bruce of Kennet and Mary Balfour. m. Helen Abercrombie. Fac. of Advocates 1743; Sheriff of Stirling, etc. March 1761; Bench 4 July 1764; Court of Justiciary Nov. 1769; Professor of Public Law Edinburgh 1759.

Dates of Existence:

1718CE Dec 24th to 1785CE Apr 8th

Associated Cases

Steven & Company v. Douglas (Lord Ordinary)

John Baxter, Provost of Cupar, and Other Burgesses v. Monro (Lord Ordinary)

Belchier v. Palmer (Lord Ordinary)

Reid v. Rowand (Lord Ordinary)

Snodgrass v. Logan (Lord Ordinary)

Archbishop of York, and Others v. Haldane (Named in case documents)

Thomas Wright v. John Ure (Lord Ordinary)

Elizabeth Wallace v. William Gordon and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Messrs Mansfield, Hunter, and Company, and Others, creditors of John Nisbet of Northfield v. Thomas Cairns (Lord Ordinary)

Mrs Anne Nielson, &c v. Austins (Lord Ordinary)

John Steven & Company v. Douglas (Lord Ordinary)

Tyson v. Scott (Reporter)

James Coutts v. Sir Francis Blake (Lord Ordinary)

Alexander Stewart v. John Isat (Lord Ordinary)

Maxwell v. Blair and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Dunlop, and Other Trustees of Carlyle and Co v. Spiers and Others (Lord Ordinary)

M'Lehose and Others v. Parks (Lord Ordinary)

Jardine v. Creech, &c (Lord Ordinary)

William Hart v. John and James Naesmith (Lord Ordinary)

Alexander Spiers and Others v. Thomas Dunlop and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Craig v. Anderson (Lord Ordinary)

Nasmith v. the Magistrates and Town-Council of Glasgow (Lord Ordinary)

Thomas Dunlop, and Others v. Walter Monteith and Co., and Others (Named in case documents)

Jamieson v. Kyle (Lord Ordinary)

Jesson v. Gray, Rector of the School of Coupar (Lord Ordinary)

Macindoe v. Cowley, Wallace, Crawford, and French (Lord Ordinary)

The Earl of Home, and other Heritors of the Parish of Eccles v. The Earl of Marchmont, &c (Named in case documents)

Dunlops, and Others v. Spiers, and Others

Maxwell v. M'Arthur (Lord Ordinary)

George Ross and Others v. Sir Roderick M'Kenzie and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Alexander Duncan, and Others v. The Magistrates of Aberdeen (Lord Ordinary)

Buchannans v. Gray and Hall (Lord Ordinary)

Creditors of Moncreiffe v. Moncreiffe (Lord Ordinary)

Ranking of Orr of Watterston's Creditors (Lord Ordinary)

James Scott v. John Bruce-Stewart (Lord Ordinary)

Aitcheson v. Stalker (Lord Ordinary)

Thomas Dunlop and Others v. Alexander Spiers and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Young and Others v. MacDonald (Lord Ordinary)

Creditors of Hynd v. M'Kechny (Lord Ordinary)

Mrs Jean Hall v. Creditors of Robert Hall (Lord Ordinary)

Mure v. Clark (Lord Ordinary)

Sibbald v. Maben (Lord Ordinary)

Associated Locations

Kennet Estate (1)