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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery and King's Bench Divisions:...
Catalogue reference: J 17
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J 17
Statements on oath used in evidence in civil proceedings in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice. The Chancery depositions arise mainly from disputes concerning the administration of estates and trusts of...
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J 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery and King's Bench Divisions: Depositions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1880-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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Statements on oath used in evidence in civil proceedings in the Queen's Bench and Chancery Divisions of the High Court of Justice. The Chancery depositions arise mainly from disputes concerning the administration of estates and trusts of settlement; those from the King's Bench relate mostly to actions relating to breaches of contract, claims for damages, recovery of debts, etc. Similar depositions from 1926 to 1959 have not survived, but from 1960 onwards a representative selection has been preserved. There is also a small amount of other material, such as documents exhibited in court, etc., including records arising from the trial of Sir Roger Casement in 1916.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Depositions are listed in date order, and within each year they are arranged alphabetically under plaintiff's names.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier records will be found in CP 22 KB 6
and KB 144
Earlier King's Bench depositions are in:
King's Bench Division pleadings are in KB 19
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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)
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- Supreme Court of Judicature, Kings Bench Division, 1901-1952
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Queens Bench Division, 1875-1901
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Queens Bench Division, 1952-1952
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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706 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
- Litigation
- Treason and rebellion
- Debt
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The Denning Committee on Legal Records (1966) proposed in its Report (Cmnd 3084) that Queen's Bench Division depositions of this kind should be destroyed after 10 years. It also proposed the destruction of Chancery depositions 10 years after the end of the proceedings to which they relate, subject to the selection of random samples, designed to show the nature of the documents in use rather than the contents of individual items.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9625/
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