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Series
Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers
Catalogue reference: LCO 1
What's it about?
LCO 1
Correspondence and papers from the Lord Chancellor's Office dealing with judicial and legal administration. Subjects covered include legislation, including the codification of criminal law; the procedure and organization of central and local...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LCO 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1872-1889
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers from the Lord Chancellor's Office dealing with judicial and legal administration. Subjects covered include legislation, including the codification of criminal law; the procedure and organization of central and local courts; bankruptcy, lunacy and wreck jurisdictions; The approval of regulations governing the operations of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the appointment of legal officers; and the staffing of the courts and of departments subordinate to the Lord Chancellor including the Land Registry, the Middlesex and Yorkshire Deeds Registries, and probate registries.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Office, 1885-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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88 file(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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10239/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
30,054 records
Within the department: LCO
Records of the Lord Chancellor's Office and of various legal commissions and committees
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Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers
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