Series
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: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Scire Facias , Series II
Catalogue reference: C 246
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C 246
Writs requiring the sheriff to summon debtors into court to show why the writ fieri facias or elegit should not issue against them, with regard to debts registered in Chancery upon the close rolls: C 54Most of these records were formerly included...
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- C 246
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Scire Facias, Series II
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1289-1656
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Description (What the record is about)
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Writs requiring the sheriff to summon debtors into court to show why the writ fieri facias or elegit should not issue against them, with regard to debts registered in Chancery upon the close rolls: C 54
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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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 158 file(s)
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- Topics
- Debt
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By the Statute of Westminster II debts which had been outstanding for more than one year had to be revived by a writ of scire facias, which allowed the debtor to show why common law process to levy the debt should not issue against him.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3778/
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