Series
Lord Chancellor's Office and predecessors: County Courts Headquarters: Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: LCO 8
What's it about?
LCO 8
The series contains administrative files of the County Court Department of the Treasury and of the County Courts Branch of the Lord Chancellor's Department; Treasury circulars and instructions to County Court officers, 1846 to 1906; Home Office...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LCO 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Office and predecessors: County Courts Headquarters: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1788-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains administrative files of the County Court Department of the Treasury and of the County Courts Branch of the Lord Chancellor's Department; Treasury circulars and instructions to County Court officers, 1846 to 1906; Home Office orders, 1854 to 1868; a volume giving details of administrative areas; a "museum" collection of court and extraneous documents; and Lord Chancellor's circulars and instructions to county court registrars and high bailiffs. The vast majority of the papers in this series date from the twentieth century
The files now in LCO 8/80-87 were incorrectly re-registered into a new series after the County Courts Branch closed down.
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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)
- 90 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10246/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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 and predecessors: County Courts Headquarters: Correspondence and Papers