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Series
High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 24
What's it about?
HCA 24
These files contain libels (the plaintiff's statement of claim), allegations (the defendant's plea in reply), decrees and sentences (the judgments of the Court) and many other miscellaneous documents such as exhibits, interrogatories, commissions...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 24
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations, Decrees, Sentences and Miscellaneous Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1526-1814
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files contain libels (the plaintiff's statement of claim), allegations (the defendant's plea in reply), decrees and sentences (the judgments of the Court) and many other miscellaneous documents such as exhibits, interrogatories, commissions for the examination of witnesses, etc, writs and taxed bills of costs.
The main series of libels and associated documents covers 1526 to 1739. Other files, containing allegations only, cover 1640 to 1677, 1781-1782 and 1793; and others, containing allegations in prize cases only, cover 1794 to 1814.
Each file contains a hundred cases or so: there is no index, although each libel is numbered.
The libels, in Latin or English, contain the pleadings, and exhibits such as schedules or inventories.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Sentences in prize appeals are in HCA 48
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 176 bundle(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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Particular cases in HCA 24/1-69 (1527-1602) are described, and some of the documents transcribed, translated and published in detail, in R G Marsden, Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty, 2 vols, Selden Society VI (1892) and XI (1897). Admiralty jurisdiction is discussed in Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction, ed M J Prichard and D E C Yale, Selden Society CVIII (1992).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8622/
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High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations, Decrees, Sentences and Miscellaneous Documents
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