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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams'...
Catalogue reference: J 34
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J 34
Drafts from the chambers of Chancery Master Watkin-Williams. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (1910-1932) in his role as a Master/Chief...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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J 34
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Drafts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1883-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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Drafts from the chambers of Chancery Master Watkin-Williams. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (1910-1932) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Charles Burney (1877-1909), Master Edmund Boyle Church (1864-1876) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master George Whiting (1852-1863).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The drafts are arranged under the initial letter of the action concerned, each set of chambers being allocated cases falling within a particular division; eg G-N. In a few cases, drafts relate to actions falling outside the chambers main concern, possibly because they were handled exceptionally or were dealt with specially during the vacation.
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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)
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C 335
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 bundle(s)
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1914 Robert Thesiger Watkin- Williams, 1867-1953
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Documents in this series were scheduled for destruction after 40 years in 1913 and after 10 years in 1929. Following the Report of the Committee on Legal Records (Cmnd 3084) of 1966, action on their disposal was deferred pending the examination of Chancery Masters' documents as a whole.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9642/
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Drafts