Scottish Court of Session Records

William Craig, Lord Craig

Name:

William Craig, Lord Craig

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Biographical Info:

Biographical Notes:

Son of minister William Craig (1709–1784). Advocate 1768; Sheriff-depute of Ayr 1787; Lord Craig 1792; Judge of the court of justiciary 1795-1812. Political ally of Henry Dundas.

Craig, William Craig, Lord, 1745-1813

William Craig, Lord Craig, 1745-1813

Dates of Existence:

1745CE to 1813CE Jul 8th

Associated Cases

Wilson and Company v. Hamilton and Company (Advocate for Defender)

Gilbert Moses v. William Craig, Robert M'Lintock, and James Clark, Trustees for the Creditors of John M'Ewan (Advocate for Defender)

Findlay v. Graham (Advocate for Pursuer)

Murdoch v. Home (Advocate for Pursuer)

Edmonstone v. Tweedale (Advocate for Pursuer)

Ker v. Creditors of Sutherland (Advocate for Pursuer)

John Baxter, Provost of Cupar, and Other Burgesses v. Monro (Advocate for Pursuer)

Dundas v. Duncan (Lord Ordinary)

Finlay v. Finlay and his trustees (Advocate for Defender)

Brown v. Maxwell (Advocate for Pursuer)

Lockhart v. Henderson (Lord Ordinary)

Johnston v. Home (Lord Ordinary)

Watson v. Johnston (Advocate for Pursuer)

Walker v. Gordon (Advocate for Pursuer)

Cassillis v. Stephenson (Advocate for Respondent)

More, Irvine and Monro v. Gibson (Advocate for Defender)

Allison v. Naismith (Advocate for Pursuer)

Hately v. Dunlop (Advocate for Pursuer)

Kempt v. Liddell (Advocate for Pursuer)

Telfair v. Telfair (Advocate for Defender)

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

Donald v. Murdoch (Advocate for Defender)

McHarg v. Dunn (Advocate for Defender)

Allan v. Stewart (Advocate for Defender)

Shaw v. Fleming (Advocate for Defender)

Lord Reay v. James Anderson and Others (Lord Ordinary)

Patrick Cunninghame v. The Magistrates and Town-Council of Edinburgh (Lord Ordinary)

Duncan Stewart v. Lieutenant Alexander Graeme (Lord Ordinary)

Stirlings v. Sir John Stirling of Glorat, Baronet (Lord Ordinary)

Jean Farquharson v. Alexander Anderson (Lord Ordinary)

Samuel Hawkins, and Others, Personal Creditors of the late John, Earl of Glencairn v. Simon Taylor, and Others, Trustees of William Cunningham Cunningham Graham (Lord Ordinary)

Thomas Wake and Attorney v. Hillary Bauerman & Son, and Jacob Runke Jacobs (Lord Ordinary)

William Baxter v. Bell and Maxwell and Others (Lord Ordinary)

John Krassaw v. Neil, Earl of Roseberie (Advocate for Defender)

Margaret Telfair v. Janet Milmyne (Advocate for Pursuer)

Mary Muir v. Isobel Buchanan (Advocate for Pursuer)

Archibald Craig v. Emilia Brodie (Advocate for Pursuer)

The Magistrates, Town-Council, and Community of Dumbarton v. The Magistrates and Town-Council of the City of Glasgow (Advocate for Defender)

Reid v. His Creditors (Advocate for Defender)

The Presbytery of Paisley v. David Erskine, Esq, Patron of the Parish of Erskine. (Advocate for Defender)

Robert Alexander v. Charles Dalrymple (Advocate for Petitioner)

Robert Armour v. James Young (Advocate for Defender)

James Buchanan, Dean of Guild of Glasgow v. Patrick Bell (Advocate for Charger)

Clark v. Macgill (Advocate for Defender)

Archibald Cooper v. Sir William Maxwell (Advocate for Petitioner)

William Cuningham and Company v. Gilbert Lang (Advocate for Pursuer)

Cunninghames v. Dougal (Advocate for Defender)

Agnes Watson, and James Taylor, her Husband v. Agnes Mathie, and James Weir, her Husband (Advocate for Pursuer)

Agnes Watson v. Mary Rae (Advocate for Pursuer)

Alexander Stewart v. John Isat (Advocate for Pursuer)

Stewart v. Carrick (Advocate for Defender)

Solicitor of Tithes v. Governor and Company of Undertakers for raising Thames water in York-buildings (Advocate for Defender)

John Skeill v. Humphry-Bland Gardiner (Advocate for Respondent)

Alexander Farquharson v. The Governor and Company of Undertakers for raising Thames water in York-buildings (Advocate for Defender)

Richardson and Tait v. Thomson (Advocate for Pursuer)

(Advocate for Defender)

Maxwell v. Buchanan (Advocate for Defender)

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

M'Crackan v. Pulline (Advocate for Suspender)

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

Heron v. MacLellan (Advocate for Defender)

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

In re Jean Alexander (Advocate for Petitioner)

Blands v. Ewing and Company, and Dinwiddie (Advocate for Defender)

Briggs v. Stark and Balfour (Advocate for Petitioner)

Clark v. Stuart (Advocate for Pursuer)

Craig v. Anderson (Advocate for Pursuer)

Creditors of Angus Fisher v. The Creditors of Patrick Campbell, and Others (Advocate for Pursuer)

Creditors of Hynd v. M'Kechny (Advocate for Pursuer)

Orr v. Paterson, and Others (Advocate for Pursuer)

Drew v. Calder (Advocate for Pursuer)

Earl of Selkirk v. Robert Nasmith (Advocate for Defender)

Nasmith v. Robertson (Advocate for Charger)

David and Hugh Mitchell v. William Ferguson (Advocate for Suspender)

Nasmith v. the Magistrates and Town-Council of Glasgow (Advocate for Defender)

Keltie v. Finlay (Advocate for Suspender)

Gelly and Campbell v. Campbell (Advocate for Pursuer)

Glass v. Kelly, &c (Advocate for Pursuer)

Hamilton v. Hamilton's Creditors (Advocate for Petitioner)

Thomas Dunlop, and Others v. Walter Monteith and Co., and Others (Advocate for Respondent)

Tailors of Glasgow v. Hugh M'Kechnie and Others (Advocate for Pursuer)

Jamieson v. Kyle (Advocate for Petitioner)

Jesson v. Gray, Rector of the School of Coupar (Advocate for Defender)

King and Scot v. MacIntyre (Advocate for Defender)

Macindoe v. Cowley, Wallace, Crawford, and French (Advocate for Defender)

Duncan v. Maclintock and Smith (Advocate for Defender)

Macredie v. Cunninghames (Advocate for Defender)

Robertson v. Pettigrew (Advocate for Charger)

Macharg and Others v. Macharg and his Curators (Advocate for Defender)

Alexander Fergusson, and Others v. The Magistrates of Glasgow (Advocate for Defender)

John Beadie v. The Other Creditors of Thomas Heggie (Advocate for Respondent)

McMinn v. His Creditors (Advocate for Petitioner)

Beck v. M'Clone (Advocate for Pursuer)

Magistrates and Town-Council of Glasgow v. Murdoch, Warroch, and Company (Advocate for Pursuer)

Creditors of Moncreiffe v. Moncreiffe (Advocate for Pursuer)

Cowan v. Farie and Others (Advocate for Petitioner)

Countess of Sutherland v. Dunbar (Advocate for Respondent)

Murdoch et. al v. Magistrates of Port-Glasgow (Advocate for Defender)

Radcliff and Company, and their Attorneys v. Loch (Advocate for Pursuer)

Dunlop and Montgomery v. Peter (Advocate for Pursuer)

Ferrier v. Grant, and Others (Advocate for Petitioner)

Robertson v. Craig (Advocate for Pursuer)

Robertson v. McClure

Ranking of Orr of Watterston's Creditors (Advocate for Petitioner)

James Sellars v. Ninian Anderson (Advocate for Defender)

Hamilton v. Hunter and Co. (Advocate for Pursuer)

Greig v. Johnston (Advocate for Defender)

Hammond, Birket, and Smith v. Marshall (Advocate for Defender)

Houston v. Hunter and Edmund (Advocate for Defender)

Ranking of William Simpson's Creditors (Advocate for Respondent)

Howe v. Bland (Advocate for Pursuer)

Janet Duncan v. John Sloss (Advocate for Pursuer)

Gordon v. Kissock (Advocate for Charger)

Aitcheson v. Stalker (Advocate for Charger)

Watson v. Stewart (Advocate for Suspender)

Thomas Stoddart v. M'Quan, Beck, and Company (Advocate for Defender)

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

Walpoles v. John Walker (Advocate for Petitioner)

Wilson and Scott v. Alexander (Advocate for Defender)

Woods v. Carstairs (Advocate for Defender)

Young and Others v. MacDonald (Advocate for Suspender)

Marshall, Hamilton, and Company v. John Crawford and John Barns (Advocate for Charger)

Naismith v. M'Morrow (Advocate for Respondent)

M'Harg v. Marquess of Tweeddale (Advocate for Petitioner)

Mure v. Clark (Advocate for Defender)

Oliver Melvil v. Mr Robert Arnot, Minister at Ceres (Advocate for Pursuer)

Pierson v. Alexander (Advocate for Respondent)

Reid v. Cunninghame (Advocate for Suspender)

Robert Fram and Others v. The Magistrates of Dumbarton (Advocate for Defender)

Robertson v. Gray (Advocate for Pursuer)

Robertson v. Robertson and Miller (Advocate for Defender)

Robertson v. Robertson (Advocate for Charger)

Sibbald v. Maben (Advocate for Charger)

Sommerville v. Home (Advocate for Petitioner)

Associated Locations

Edinburgh (2)

Linlithgow (1)