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High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series III
Catalogue reference: HCA 7
What's it about?
HCA 7
This series contains assignation books (series III) of the Instance Court.The books contain brief notes of the instance proceedings of the court at each session, and relate to such matters as commercial disputes, collision, pilotage, salvage,...
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HCA 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series III
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Date (When the record was created)
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1810-1864
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains assignation books (series III) of the Instance Court.
The books contain brief notes of the instance proceedings of the court at each session, and relate to such matters as commercial disputes, collision, pilotage, salvage, wages, etc. Formal adjournments of oyer and terminer sessions, dealing with the criminal jurisdiction of the court, are also recorded in a number of the earlier volumes, but not the actual proceedings. There is generally an index of ships at the end of each volume.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the oyer and terminer cases are in HCA 1
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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)
- High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court, 1660-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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56 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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Indexes to instance papers are available in the public areas. They are IND 1/9458-9460. A further index to 1839 is in HCA 56/64. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise locations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8605/
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