Catalogue description Supreme Court of Judicature: Central Office: House of Lords Judgments

Judgments made by the House of Lords on appeal from the Court of Appeal between 1885 and 1906, filed, together with petitions of appeal, in the Central Office of the Supreme Court.

They do not include the reasoning behind the law lords' decisions. Each item consists of the judgment itself, printed until 1903 and thereafter hand-written; a copy of the printed petition or petitions of appeal on which it was made; and a covering note from the principal clerk of the Judicial Department of the House of Lords to the senior master of the Supreme Court, who was also the king's remembrancer and the head of the Central Office of the court.

Supreme Court of Judicature, Central Office, 1879-