Series
Duchy of Lancaster: Bonds of Obligation
Catalogue reference: DL 24
Date: c1509-1837
This series consists of bonds of obligation created as part of the administration of the estate of the Duchy of Lancaster and the operation of the...
Series
Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and Court of Bankruptcy: Bankruptcy Enrolment...
Catalogue reference: B 5
What's it about?
B 5
Bankruptcy enrolment books of the Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and Court of Bankruptcy. They include enrolments of commissions and fiats of bankruptcy, certificates of conformity, assignments, adjudications, appointment of assignees,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- B 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and Court of Bankruptcy: Bankruptcy Enrolment Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1710-1859
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Description (What the record is about)
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Bankruptcy enrolment books of the Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and Court of Bankruptcy. They include enrolments of commissions and fiats of bankruptcy, certificates of conformity, assignments, adjudications, appointment of assignees, examinations, depositions etc.
In some cases it is difficult to date these books; the dates attributed to the assignment books in the piece descriptions, for example, should be regarded as tentative. There might be a lapse of several years between the execution of a document and its enrolment.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
B 5/1-19 are books containing enrolments of all the types of document mentioned above until 1832. After about 1824 there are individual series of books for the differing record types running parallel, and eventually superseding, the general enrolment books.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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There is an index to enrolments from 1825 to 1832 in B 8
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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)
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- Court of Bankruptcy, 1831-1869
- Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts, 1571-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 111 volume(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
- Debt
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Most volumes are indexed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2757/
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