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Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers
Catalogue reference: LCO 1
Date: 1872-1889
Correspondence and papers from the Lord Chancellor's Office dealing with judicial and legal administration. Subjects covered include legislation,...
Series
Chancery: Levari Facias Writ Files
Catalogue reference: C 243
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C 243
Writs to assist in recovering debts under the common law, an alternative to proceeding under the Statute of Merchants and the Statute of the Staple, which gave execution upon the goods, chattels and issues of the lands of the defaulting...
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- C 243
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Levari Facias Writ Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1274-1653
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Description (What the record is about)
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Writs to assist in recovering debts under the common law, an alternative to proceeding under the Statute of Merchants and the Statute of the Staple, which gave execution upon the goods, chattels and issues of the lands of the defaulting debtor.
After the Statute of the Staple, it was principally used against clerical debtors until the Tudor period when its popularity revived as the writ capias was allowed to follow upon the failure of a levari facias.
Most of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English and Latin
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- 109 file(s)
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
- Debt
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Although an alternative method of recovering debts registered in Chancery was provided by the introduction of the writ elegit in 1285, and new methods of registration and recovery were instituted by the Statutes of Acton Burnell, of Merchants and of the Staple, the use of levari facias was never wholly superseded.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3775/
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