Catalogue description Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Scire Facias , Series II

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Details of C 246
Reference: C 246
Title: Chancery: Files, Tower and Rolls Chapel Series, Scire Facias , Series II
Description:

Writs requiring the sheriff to summon debtors into court to show why the writ fieri facias or elegit should not issue against them, with regard to debts registered in Chancery upon the close rolls: C 54

Most of these records were formerly included in C 47 and C 202

Date: 1289-1656
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Physical description: 158 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

By the Statute of Westminster II debts which had been outstanding for more than one year had to be revived by a writ of scire facias, which allowed the debtor to show why common law process to levy the debt should not issue against him.

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