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Series
Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer...
Catalogue reference: J 54
What's it about?
J 54
These are mainly records arising from actions in the Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions of the High Court of Justice; down to March 1880 they belong to the Chancery Division. Thereafter, they also include pleadings from the Queen's Bench...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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J 54
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer and Queen's Bench Divisions: Pleadings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1876-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are mainly records arising from actions in the Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions of the High Court of Justice; down to March 1880 they belong to the Chancery Division. Thereafter, they also include pleadings from the Queen's Bench Division and a few from the Exchequer and Common Pleas Divisions. They include statements of claim, defence and counterclaims, associates' certificates concerning trial of action and its outcome, certificates of costs, notices of change of solicitor, etc. Some relate to actions tried at provincial assizes and were handled by district registries.
Among the more important types of proceedings to be found in the Chancery pleadings are actions relating to partnerships, mortgages, trusts and tenancy agreements etc. The Queen's Bench pleadings are mainly of a commercial character and concern such matters as breach of contract, actions of debt and damages and claims for compensation for injuries. There are also some pleadings relating to libel actions and breaches of promise.
Chancery pleadings later than 1942 (apart from a small sample covering the years 1979-1983) have not been preserved apart from those associated with other papers in the action and placed in dossiers in accordance with the recommendations of the Denning Report of the Committee on Legal Records (Cmnd 3084), published in 1966. Such records are in J 84 and comprise a 2% random sample of all cases, together with certain other cases considered to be of historical interest. QueenÂ’s Bench pleadings continue to be filed separately by the court at present, and this series contains a sample dating from 1979 to 1998.
A record within this series (J 54/1548) is available to download as digital microfilm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From 1875 until 1879 files are arranged according to the date of filing, the pleadings for each year being listed alphabetically under the first letter of plaintiffs' names. From 1880 they are similarly arranged in quarterly divisions of the year.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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2542 boxes, bundles and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2007 Department for Constitutional Affairs
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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
- Trade and commerce
- Debt
- Crime
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9662/
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