Catalogue description Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Drafts

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Reference: J 39
Title: Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Ridsdale's Drafts
Description:

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).

Date: 1883-1900
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.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 340
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-

Physical description: 56 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Arthur Risdale, 1912-1935

Selection and destruction information: 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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