Catalogue description Assizes: Northern Circuit: Civil Minute Books

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Reference: ASSI 54
Title: Assizes: Northern Circuit: Civil Minute Books
Description:

These volumes were kept by the court associate and relate to civil business referred from the High Court of Justice and heard at nisi prius. The books do not constitute a complete series; they run from 1877 to 1904, then from 1909 to 1915, and then from 1970 to 1971, when the assize system was abolished. The whereabouts of the missing volumes is not known.The information given is the originating High Court division, the case number, the names of the plaintiff, defendant and judge, the date, time and place, and the judgment.

Date: 1877-1971
Arrangement:

Chronological order

Related material:

See also the judgement rolls in ASSI 74

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Justices of Assize, Northern Circuit, 1876-1971

Physical description: 26 volume(s)

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