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Series
Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts, Series 1
Catalogue reference: CHAR 12
What's it about?
CHAR 12
This series consists of voluntary and mortmain enrolments under various Acts including the Charitable Trusts Amendment Act 1855 and the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts, Series 1
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1856-1925
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of voluntary and mortmain enrolments under various Acts including the Charitable Trusts Amendment Act 1855 and the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Charity Commission, 1853-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Charities
- Conveyancing
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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 Charitable Trusts Amendment Act 1855 provided that any will, deed or other document could voluntarily be enrolled in the books of the Charity Commissioners for record purposes.
Under various enactments, beginning with the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888, enrolment with the Commissioners was in some circumstances accepted as an alternative to enrolment in Chancery.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15104/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CHAR
Records of the Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
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Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts, Series 1
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