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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Allegations
Catalogue reference: PROB 18
What's it about?
PROB 18
The allegations in this series contain the initial statement of a case by the proctor acting for the plaintiff. They were the first stage in pleadings before a civil law court. Exhibits cited in the allegations are frequently filed with them....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PROB 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Allegations
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1661-1858
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Description (What the record is about)
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The allegations in this series contain the initial statement of a case by the proctor acting for the plaintiff. They were the first stage in pleadings before a civil law court.
Exhibits cited in the allegations are frequently filed with them. Exhibits include such documents as will drafts, extracts from registers of baptisms and marriages, lists of debts, and inventories of the deceased's estate.
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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)
- 149 bundle(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
- Population
- Debt
- Wills and probate
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Previously there was a card index to PROB 18/1-148 on open access. This has now been removed as the information from the card index has been added into the Catalogue. (October 2008).
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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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Litigation in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury was concerned with the authenticity of documents produced as wills, the testamentary capacity of the deceased, the marital status or consanguinity of persons seeking letters of administration of intestates, and the conduct of executors and administrators in distributing estates. The first plea in proceedings in civil law courts like the Prerogative Court of Canterbury took the form of an allegation produced by the proctor acting for the plaintiff. Defendants' responses to these allegations are called answers. An answer might lead to further allegations, answered by corresponding answers. The next stage in litigation was the examination of witnesses. Witnesses were examined on written interrogatories submitted by the proctors (interrogatories are sometimes referred to as articles.) The resulting documents were the depositions of witnesses which generally need to be read in conjunction with the interrogatories.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12129/
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