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Series
Law Officers' Department: Law Officers' Opinions
Catalogue reference: LO 3
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LO 3
The Opinions in this series cover a wide range of subjects including agriculture, matters relating to the Crown, education, electoral matters, financial, fisheries, forestry, legal, law and order, health, insurance, military and naval,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LO 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Law Officers' Department: Law Officers' Opinions
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Opinions in this series cover a wide range of subjects including agriculture, matters relating to the Crown, education, electoral matters, financial, fisheries, forestry, legal, law and order, health, insurance, military and naval, nationality, overseas affairs, post and telecommunications, railways, trade and transport.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The series is arranged broadly in numerical/chronological order.
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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)
- 1431 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1995 Law Officers' Department
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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/C10298/
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