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Series
High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series III
Catalogue reference: HCA 18
What's it about?
HCA 18
These papers comprise one of the six series of instance papers. They continue three earlier series of instance papers, and are themselves continued in series IV to V. The papers include a wide variety of documents, such as affidavits,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HCA 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series III
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Date (When the record was created)
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1840-1859
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Description (What the record is about)
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These papers comprise one of the six series of instance papers. They continue three earlier series of instance papers, and are themselves continued in series IV to V.
The papers include a wide variety of documents, such as affidavits, allegations, answers, decrees, petitions, etc, as well as accounts, bills of lading, ships' logs, etc. The proceedings to which they relate concern such matters as commercial disputes (e.g. in connection with bottomry), collision, salvage, wages, etc.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged by the original bundle (referred to as 'folio') numbers, which form a single sequence across the whole series. These folio numbers are also used as item numbers within the current catalogue references.
Note that series HCA 15-20 share a single sequence of piece numbers:
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Reports made by the Admiralty Registrar are in HCA 54
Other instance correspondence and papers are in HCA 52
An alphabetical index by ship names (now largely superseded by the online catalogue entries) is IND 1/9459
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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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140 bundle(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8616/
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Within the department: HCA
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High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series III
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