Catalogue description Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Chandler's Drafts

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Reference: J 47
Title: Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Chandler's Drafts
Description:

Draft orders, certificates etc, transferred from the chambers of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1913 until 1938. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Pretor Whitty Chandler (1913-1938) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Richard John Villiers (1894-1912), Master Charles Harwood Clarke (1873-1893) and, for causes with initial letters O-Z, Master Henry Leman (1852-1872).

Date: 1882-1890
Arrangement:

Files are arranged alphabetically under the title of the action concerned. In a number of cases the nature of the suit is also indicated.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 348
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875-

Physical description: 23 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1915 Pretor Whitty Chandler, 1858-1941

Selection and destruction information: These documents appear to be the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914 pp 192-194.

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