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Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Manchester District Registry: Companies'...
Catalogue reference: PL 32
What's it about?
PL 32
The documents in this series are those of the Manchester District Registry of the Chancery Court of the Palatinate of Lancaster. They arise from winding-up petitions under the Companies Acts 1862 to 1890 and later legislation, and include such...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PL 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Manchester District Registry: Companies' Winding-up Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1892-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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The documents in this series are those of the Manchester District Registry of the Chancery Court of the Palatinate of Lancaster. They arise from winding-up petitions under the Companies Acts 1862 to 1890 and later legislation, and include such records as accounts, orders, affidavits, creditors' proofs of debts, liquidators' bills of costs, receivers' reports, etc.
The first part of the series relates to petitions each of which resulted in the making of an order to wind up the company concerned. The remaining documents relate to petitions for which no winding-up orders were made.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The first block of records (PL 32/1-59), is, with one minor exception, arranged in date order from 1892. The next block (PL 32/60-65), is arranged alphabetically under the names of the companies concerned.
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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)
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- Lancashire Chancery Court, Manchester District Registry, 1875-1971
- Palatinate of Lancaster, Chancery Court, Manchester District Registry, 1857-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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65 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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- Topics
- Litigation
- Trade and commerce
- Debt
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11637/
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