Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers

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Reference: LCO 1
Title: Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers
Description:

Correspondence and papers from the Lord Chancellor's Office dealing with judicial and legal administration. Subjects covered include legislation, including the codification of criminal law; the procedure and organization of central and local courts; bankruptcy, lunacy and wreck jurisdictions; The approval of regulations governing the operations of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the appointment of legal officers; and the staffing of the courts and of departments subordinate to the Lord Chancellor including the Land Registry, the Middlesex and Yorkshire Deeds Registries, and probate registries.

Date: 1872-1889
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Lord Chancellor's Office, 1885-1972

Physical description: 88 file(s)

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