Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master White's Miscellaneous Books

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Title: Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master White's Miscellaneous Books
Description:

Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Sir Richard White, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1900 until his death in 1925. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Richard White (1900-1925) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master George A Crowder (1886-1899), Master Robert Marshall (1865-1885) and, for causes with initial letters O-Z, Master George Hume (1852-1864).

Most of the books in this series relate to accounts in suits and the making of court orders. There are also some files of proceedings concerning company winding-up.

Date: 1850-1903
Arrangement:

The books have been broadly arranged according to the information they contain.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 337
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Court of Chancery, 1875

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-

Physical description: 307 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Sir Richard WhiteKnight, 1901-1925

Selection and destruction information: The documents which mostly originated with Master White's 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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