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Department
Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
Catalogue reference: ASSI
What's it about?
ASSI
Records of the Justices of Assize from 1554 to 1971 relating to the central control of justice and administration at a local level. They include records relating to actions originating in the courts at Westminster which were tried at assizes...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ASSI
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius
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Date (When the record was created)
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1554-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Justices of Assize from 1554 to 1971 relating to the central control of justice and administration at a local level. They include records relating to actions originating in the courts at Westminster which were tried at assizes under nisi prius procedure.
The records are mainly arranged by circuits:
- Home, Norfolk and South-Eastern Circuits
- Midland Circuit
- Northern and North-Eastern Circuits
- Oxford Circuit
- Welsh Circuits including Chester
- Western Circuit
- Cross-Circuit Records
There are also three series organised by record type which cross circuit boundaries.
The following 14 series numbers have not been used: ASSI 7, ASSI 17- ASSI 20, ASSI 27, ASSI 29, ASSI 48 - ASSI 50, ASSI 56, and ASSI 68 - ASSI 70.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Records of courts of quarter sessions are deposited locally under the Public Records Act 1958.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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95 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Legal
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16/
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