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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division:...
Catalogue reference: J 35
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J 35
Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Sir Charles Hulbert, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1905 until 1931. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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J 35
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Hulbert's Miscellaneous Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1850-1903
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Sir Charles Hulbert, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1905 until 1931. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Sir Charles Hulbert (1905-1931), in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk, were Master John William Hawkins (1864-1904) and, for causes with initial letters G-K, Master George Whiting (1852-1863) and, for causes with initial letters L-N, Master George Hume (1852-1863).
They relate mainly to accounts in suits c 1850 to 1900; court order books 1864 to 1894 and files of proceedings concerning company winding-up c 1850 to 1900. There are also two registers of testators and intestates 1857 to 1897.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The books record a wide variety of Chancery business and have been broadly arranged according to the type of information they contain.
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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 336
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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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- 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)
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242 volume(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 Sir Charles HulbertKnight, 1932-1932
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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
- Wills and probate
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The documents, which originated with his predecessors, are the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules 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/C9643/
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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Hulbert's Miscellaneous Books
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