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Series
Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and successors: Registers of Documents Filed...
Catalogue reference: B 6
What's it about?
B 6
This series contains registers to documents filed in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.They often give summary particulars concerning bankrupts, creditors, insolvent debtors, the sums involved and the nature of associated deeds. Sometimes the...
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 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and successors: Registers of Documents Filed in Bankruptcy Proceedings
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1733-1925
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers to documents filed in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.
They often give summary particulars concerning bankrupts, creditors, insolvent debtors, the sums involved and the nature of associated deeds. Sometimes the outcome of an action or result of a petition is indicated.
Types of records included are:
- certificates of conformity (1733-1856)
- declarations of insolvency (1825-1925)
- impounded commission of bankruptcy (1777-1832)
- arrangement proceedings (liquidation petitions) (1870-1884)
- bankrupts, London and Country (1870-1883)
- binding register (1873-1874)
- docket books, London, Country, and County Courts (1849-1869)
- fiats (1832-1849)
- petitions of several sorts (1813-1886)
- trust, composition and inspectorship deeds (1861-1870)
- proposal cases (1848-1862) sub-assignments by provisional assignees (1813-1827)
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological order, mainly under the head of the type of document or transaction registered.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later registers see BT 293
For petition registers see also LCO 28
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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 for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 1813-1861
- Court of Bankruptcy, 1831-1869
- High Court of Justice in Bankruptcy, 1883-1883
- London Court of Bankruptcy, 1869-1873
- Office of the Commissioners of Bankrupts, 1571-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 223 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
- Litigation
- Debt
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2758/
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