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Series
Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division: Affidavits
Catalogue reference: J 5
What's it about?
J 5
The affidavits in this series arise from civil actions on the plea side of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and consist of sworn written statements given in evidence.The bulk of this series dates from 1876 to 1881, but...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- J 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division: Affidavits
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1859-1881
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Description (What the record is about)
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The affidavits in this series arise from civil actions on the plea side of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and consist of sworn written statements given in evidence.
The bulk of this series dates from 1876 to 1881, but there is one earlier affidavit of 1859 (of the Court of King's Bench) and one later one of 1882.
The eleven bundles also include some affidavits from the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions, many consist of answers, sometimes printed, by plaintiffs and defendants to interrogatories, arising from proceedings in actions of damages and debts concerning such matters as breaches of contract, and disputes arising from commercial transactions, contraventions of building leases, etc.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The first eleven bundles (J 5/43-J 5/53) are arranged and numbered under the first letter of the name of the party concerned, and unlike the earlier ones do not appear to have been weeded. Bundles are in no particular order apart from having been boxed according to the year or years to which they relate.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related material in Queen's Bench Division cases, see the cause books for 1879 to 1881, which include the date and nature of the judgment, in IND 1/2278-2434
Earlier affidavits are in KB 101
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Supreme Court of Judicature, Common Pleas Division, 1875-1880
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Exchequer Division, 1875-1880
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Queens Bench Division, 1875-1901
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 55 bundle(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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
- Litigation
- Trade and commerce
- Debt
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Currently, Queen's Bench Division affidavits are destroyed after 6 or 10 years in accordance with the recommendations of the Denning Report of the Committee on Legal Records (Cmnd 3084) of 1966. The first eleven bundles have not been weeded and appear to have been selected as indicative of the main points at issue, whereas the affidavits in the second block (J 5/54-J 5/97) all relate to 1881 and are mostly in common form, such as affidavits in support of summons and of service of the same.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9613/
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