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Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Civil and Oyer and Terminer Minute Books

Catalogue reference: ASSI 1

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ASSI 1

Minutes of Oxford Circuit proceedings in civil actions referred from the central courts of common law and from 1875, the High Court of Justice and heard at nisi prius. There are also minute books of the proceedings on the special commissions of...

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ASSI 1

Title
Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Civil and Oyer and Terminer Minute Books
Date

1803-1971

Description

Minutes of Oxford Circuit proceedings in civil actions referred from the central courts of common law and from 1875, the High Court of Justice and heard at nisi prius. There are also minute books of the proceedings on the special commissions of oyer and terminer held at Bristol in 1832 following the Reform Bill riots in that city in 1831 and at Monmouth in 1839 in connection with the Chartist uprising at Newport in that year.

Separated material

Minute books from 1889 to 1937 have not survived.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

81 volume(s)

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2400/

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Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius

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Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Civil and Oyer and Terminer Minute Books