Download or read book Retours of Services of Heirs Volume C 1700-1859 written by Bruce Durie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These records, informally known as Retours of Services of Heirs, represent possibly the greatest unused resource for Scottish genealogy and land history, but are not widely available and thus are largely unknown. Essentially, they are abbreviated abstracts of the records of inheritance, the continuity of heritable possession of land and certain associated rights and responsibilities. The original Retours themselves are often long and complicated, and mostly in Latin, but they were indexed and abbreviated into the form presented here. The Retours can be searched by surname and place name, by county. There is additional material and a Latin glossary" -- Volume A, back cover.