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Reference
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HCA 20
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and Queen's Bench Division, Admiralty Court: Instance Papers, Series V
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1875-1981
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Description
(What the record is about)
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These papers comprise the last of the six series of instance papers, and continue those earlier papers.
The papers include a wide variety of documents, such as affidavits, accounts, bills of costs, examinations of witnesses, statements, summons, etc. The proceedings to which they relate concern such matters as collision, damages, salvage, etc.
Until the Administration of Justice Act 1970, the papers are those of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. Thereafter, they are papers of the Admiralty Court of the Queen's Bench Division.
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Pieces 1-562 are Numbers not used.
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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
For certain preliminary Acts, see
J 65
Other instance correspondence and papers are in
HCA 52
For reference to these papers, see
IND 1/9460
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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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)
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- Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 1875-1970
- Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Queens Bench Division, Admiralty Court, 1970-1970
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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1526 bundles and files
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Access conditions
(Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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- Topics
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Litigation
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Marriage and divorce
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Wills and probate
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Armed Forces (General Administration)
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Unpublished finding aids
(A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
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There was a card index for HCA 20 and HCA 27 covering 1914-1924, but all the data from it has now been added to the catalogue.
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8618/