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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's...
Catalogue reference: J 39
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J 39
Drafts from the chambers of Chancery Master Arthur Francis Risdale. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale (1912-1935) 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)
- J 39
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Drafts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1883-1900
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Description (What the record is about)
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Drafts from the chambers of Chancery Master Arthur Francis Risdale. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Arthur Francis Ridsdale (1912-1935) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Henry Templar Prior (1907-1911), Master William Binns Smith (1874-1906) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master Alfred Hall (1852-1873).
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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.
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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 340
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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)
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 56 bundle(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 Arthur Risdale, 1912-1935
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Documents 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/C9647/
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Drafts