Catalogue description Palatinate of Lancaster: Court of Chancery, Liverpool District Registry: Registrar's Orders

This series contains Registrar's orders for the Liverpool District Registry from August 1853 to May 1938. The orders relate to interlocutories made by solicitors' applications on behalf of the parties involved in a legal action in the Chancery Court.

This is the best run available of Registrar's orders from the Lancaster Chancery Court district registries. There is an index arranged by plaintiff's surname in each book. The orders that follow it should not be confused with the orders of court which settle a case.

Court orders were intended to adjudicate the case in hand, while the District Registrar made orders to regulate the proceedings of the court regarding the case. They may secure further time for evidence, obtain documents within a time limit, fix dates for affidavits or exceptions to answers to be filed, require the defendant to pay his costs, etc. Each is dated, and the names of the parties in the case are stated.

The Registrar's orders may cross refer to court orders and decrees of the court, which can then be further traced. They are almost invariably in chronological order, and solicitors in response to whose application the orders were granted are often named. They are signed nominally by the District Registrar.

Lancashire Chancery Court, Liverpool District Registry, 1875-1971

Palatinate of Lancaster, Chancery Court, Liverpool District Registry, 1853-1875