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Series
Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Cepi Corpora Files
Catalogue reference: KB 156
What's it about?
KB 156
Files begun at Michaelmas 1589 to hold the latitats or other writs and precepts returned endorsed 'cepi corpora', which had previously been filed in the Brevia Billarum files (KB 147). The series continued until at least 1688, although there is...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KB 156
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Cepi Corpora Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1589-1688
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files begun at Michaelmas 1589 to hold the latitats or other writs and precepts returned endorsed 'cepi corpora', which had previously been filed in the Brevia Billarum files (KB 147). The series continued until at least 1688, although there is an almost complete gap between 1632 and 1645.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Each file generally corresponds to a legal term.
The surviving files are numbered on a systematic basis. The first element is a reign number, running from 1 (Elizabeth I). The second is regnal year, the third represents the term within the year. The numbers used to represent the different terms varies from reign to reign, according to the point in the calendar year at which the new monarch succeeded to the throne.
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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)
- Latin
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Documents held off-site
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Unsorted
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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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- Topics
- Litigation
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Any further files being identified will be added at the appropriate point in the numerical structure.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10088/
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