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Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Divison:...
Catalogue reference: J 46
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J 46
Papers transferred from the chambers of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1913 until 1938. 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)
- J 46
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Divison: Master Chandler's Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1843-1890
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers transferred from the chambers of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1913 until 1938. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler (1913-1938) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Richard John Villiers (1894-1912), Master Charles Harwood Clarke (1873-1893) and, for causes with initial letters O-Z, Master Henry Leman (1852-1872).
These papers relate to actions in the Court of Chancery and the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice and include papers concerning questions of title to estates on coming of age, guardianships, recovery of debt, maintenance of infants and company liquidation. This series also includes some pedigrees arising from the administration of estates. A number of estate agents' prospectuses of properties for sale by auction under orders of court will also be found among these papers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically under the title of the action concerned. In a number of cases the nature of the suit is also indicated.
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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 347
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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)
- 32 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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Pretor Whitty Chandler, 1858-1941
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These documents appear to be the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under 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/C9654/
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