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Foreign Office: Shanghai Courts, China: Judges' and Magistrates' Notebooks
Catalogue reference: FO 1092
What's it about?
FO 1092
This series contains the notebooks of judges and magistrates sitting in supreme, police, provincial and summary courts at Shanghai. Types of cases recorded in the notebooks include civil, criminal, divorce and intestate cases, inquests,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1092
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Shanghai Courts, China: Judges' and Magistrates' Notebooks
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Date (When the record was created)
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1865-1941
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the notebooks of judges and magistrates sitting in supreme, police, provincial and summary courts at Shanghai. Types of cases recorded in the notebooks include civil, criminal, divorce and intestate cases, inquests, bankruptcy and probate hearings, arbitrations and admiralty cases. Also included are notebooks of circuit judges sitting on the Shanghai circuit.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Supreme Consular Court, China, 1858-1941
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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370 volume(s)
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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Some notebooks have suffered from insect infestation and damp due to the storage conditions.
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The Shanghai court records were discovered by the Chinese authorities in c. 1981 in the old Consulate-General building where they had been deposited for safe keeping on the approval of the Chinese Red Army in c.1949.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8391/
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Foreign Office: Shanghai Courts, China: Judges' and Magistrates' Notebooks
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