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Reference
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J 13
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Title
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Companies Court: Companies (Winding-up) Proceedings
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1883-2003
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Description
(What the record is about)
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These arise from actions heard in the Companies Court of the High Court of Justice under the Companies (Winding Up) Act 1890 and subsequent legislation. The files include copies of summonses, affidavits of various kinds, court orders, petitions, judges' notes, schemes of arrangement for companies, papers concerning the appointment and retirement of liquidators and receivers, certificates of taxation, etc. From 1972 the proceedings also include debenture actions.
Most of the documents are purely formal, but some sets of affidavits give substantial information about a variety of matters, eg J 13/8272 gives details about woodlands and the timber trade, the use of timber in coal mining, and the difficulty of obtaining timber supplies during the First World war, over a wide area.
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Material is arranged in a series of year sequences, within which the individual files are arranged in alphabetical order of company, eg J 13/14360B and C for 1934. From 1923 to 1948 the company files for each year are listed under their initial letter. There are also occasional general files, eg J 13/16927, including summonses under the Courts Emergency Powers Act of 1940.
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Related material
(A cross-reference to other related records)
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Proceedings under earlier acts by official managers and liquidators, 1849 to 1920, are in
C 26
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status
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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, Chancery Division, 1875-1875
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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20020 files and volumes
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Restrictions on use
(Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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Pieces 1- 19130 require 3 working days notice to produce
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Access conditions
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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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Taxation
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Trade and commerce
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Conflict
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Pay and pensions
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Coal
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Debt
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Forestry
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Mining and quarrying
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Operations, battles and campaigns
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Accruals
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information
(Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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From 1949 onwards a representative selection has been preserved.
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Administrative / biographical background
(Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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These arise from actions heard in the Companies Court of the High Court ofJustice under the Companies (Winding Up) Act 1890 and subsequent legislation.From 1972 the proceedings also include debenture actions.
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9621/