Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series III

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Reference: HCA 7
Title: High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Assignation Books, Series III
Description:

This series contains assignation books (series III) of the Instance Court.

The books contain brief notes of the instance proceedings of the court at each session, and relate to such matters as commercial disputes, collision, pilotage, salvage, wages, etc. Formal adjournments of oyer and terminer sessions, dealing with the criminal jurisdiction of the court, are also recorded in a number of the earlier volumes, but not the actual proceedings. There is generally an index of ships at the end of each volume.

Date: 1810-1864
Arrangement:

Chronological

Related material:

Records of the oyer and terminer cases are in HCA 1

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

High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court, 1660-1875

Physical description: 56 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

Indexes to instance papers are available in the public areas. They are IND 1/9458-9460. A further index to 1839 is in HCA 56/64. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise locations.

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