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Series
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Appeals Assignation Books
Catalogue reference: PCAP 2
What's it about?
PCAP 2
Appeals assignation books recording the proceedings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council itself and preliminary hearings before the Court of Surrogates. They give names of parties, proctors, dates of appearance, nature of the case, date...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PCAP 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Appeals Assignation Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833-1878
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Description (What the record is about)
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Appeals assignation books recording the proceedings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council itself and preliminary hearings before the Court of Surrogates. They give names of parties, proctors, dates of appearance, nature of the case, date of the filing of the printed cases, and some final reports of the committee which constituted formal judgments. Some post 1842 volumes have a table of progress of the case.
Most of the appeals are maritime or ecclesiastical in nature and there are no references to appeals from colonial courts. Despite the 1857 act which transferred appeal jurisdiction to the House of Lords in testamentary cases, the books indicate that appeals of this kind continued to be heard by the Judicial Committee.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The assignation books are arranged chronologically.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The records are a continuation of the assignation books in DEL 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)
- 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)
- 17 volume(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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- Topics
- Litigation
- Religions
- Wills and probate
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Court of Surrogates was comprised of specially commissioned deputies, and sat in the Common Hall of Doctors' Commons.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11493/
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