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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division:...
Catalogue reference: J 23
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J 23
Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Thomas Ansdell Romer, who served successively as a chief clerk and a chancery master in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1886 until his death in 1917. The series does include...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- J 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Romer's Miscellaneous Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850-1911
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Thomas Ansdell Romer, who served successively as a chief clerk and a chancery master in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1886 until his death in 1917. The series does include material generated by his predecessor and inherited by him. The predecessor of Master Thomas Ansdell Romer (1886 onwards) in his role as Master/Chief Clerk was Master Robert William Peake (1852-1885). The papers of Master Robert William Peake found here probably only include those for causes with initial letters O-Z; for causes with initial letters L-N see J 26, J 27 and J 28.
Comprises accounts in suits, 1860 to 1890; registers of claims, orders, etc, 1853 to 1911; miscellaneous exhibits, notes of proceedings etc, 1855 to 1890; and accounts, proceedings, etc, in company winding-up actions, c1860 to 1890.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Books have been broadly arranged according to the type of information they contain.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For the papers of Robert William Peake arising from causes with initial letters L-N please see:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- C 332
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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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- Court of Chancery, 1875-1875
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 149 volume(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1914 Thomas Ansdell Romer, 1848-1917
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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
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The documents are the survivors from a weeding exercise carried out by the court under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules carried governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9631/
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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Romer's Miscellaneous Books
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