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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Keen's...
Catalogue reference: J 41
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J 41
Drafts from the chambers of the various Chancery masters, in particular Archibald Keen, having been, for the most part, inherited from their predecessors. The predecessors of Master Archibald Keen (1912-1931) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk...
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J 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Keen's Drafts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1882-1910
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Description (What the record is about)
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Drafts from the chambers of the various Chancery masters, in particular Archibald Keen, having been, for the most part, inherited from their predecessors. The predecessors of Master Archibald Keen (1912-1931) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master William Oxenham Hewlett (1890-1911), Master Edward Daniel Mellor (1883-1889) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master Edward Bloxam (1867-1882) and Master Edward Weatherall (1858-1866).
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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)
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C 342
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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)
- 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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14 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 Archibald Keen, 1860-1934
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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These 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/C9649/
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Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Keen's Drafts