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Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Depositions
Catalogue reference: KB 144
What's it about?
KB 144
A very small series of depositions had by the Court of King's Bench, probably chance survivals. All the other material to survive from before about 1836 seems to owe its survival to its use in an Irish case of 1838. There is relatively little...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KB 144
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Depositions
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1792-1875
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Description (What the record is about)
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A very small series of depositions had by the Court of King's Bench, probably chance survivals.
All the other material to survive from before about 1836 seems to owe its survival to its use in an Irish case of 1838. There is relatively little material before the late 1850s, and most of the items relate to the last 15 years or so before the court became a division of the High Court of Justice in 1875. Depositions taken abroad, especially in connection with shipping matters, are prominent.
An act of 1831 empowered the English courts of law to order the examination of witnesses both within and outside its jurisdiction, and there are many depositions taken under those terms, usually filed with the commission and the interrogatories still attached. The places where depositions were taken include France, South America, the West Indies, India, Canada and Ireland, and often one of the parties to a case is an insurance company. There are relatively few documents, such as newspapers, supporting or illustrating the content of the depositions.
An index referring to the years 1856-1875 can be found in IND 1/6630
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Crown Side depositions are in KB 6
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 bundle(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The fact that most of what has survived comes from the last years of the life of the Court of King's Bench suggests that little systematic effort was made to ensure that the most valuable material was kept, and that what remains does so largely by chance.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10076/
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