Catalogue description Court of Common Pleas: Brevia de Exigendo et Utlagendo Files

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Reference: CP 59
Title: Court of Common Pleas: Brevia de Exigendo et Utlagendo Files
Description:

Files of writs of exigi facias issued to secure the outlawry in the appropriate county court of a defendant in a case before the Court of Common Pleas who failed appear to answer the original writ. From 1715 onwards such writs were destroyed under a schedule of 1884.
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The writs of proclamation which were issued at the same time, with their returns, are in files in: CP 58
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Latin
Restrictions on use: Documents held off-site
Access conditions: Unsorted
Selection and destruction information: The original writs of exigent, allocatur exigent, proclamation and supersedeas from 1715 to 1838 were destroyed under a schedule of 1884.

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