Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Keen's Papers

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Title: Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Keen's Papers
Description:

Papers, the bulk of which were transferred from the chambers of Master Archibald Keen, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1912 until 1931. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. 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).

These relate mainly to actions concerning the administration of estates and include a number of pedigrees. There are also papers arising from company winding-up proceedings.

Date: 1850-1910
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 341
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Court of Chancery, 1875

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-

Physical description: 51 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Archibald Keen, 1860-1934

Selection and destruction information: The documents mostly originated with Master Keen's predecessors, and 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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