Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series III
Reference: | HCA 18 |
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Title: | High Court of Admiralty: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series III |
Description: |
These papers comprise one of the six series of instance papers. They continue three earlier series of instance papers, and are themselves continued in series IV to V. The papers include a wide variety of documents, such as affidavits, allegations, answers, decrees, petitions, etc, as well as accounts, bills of lading, ships' logs, etc. The proceedings to which they relate concern such matters as commercial disputes (e.g. in connection with bottomry), collision, salvage, wages, etc. |
Date: | 1840-1859 |
Arrangement: |
Arranged by the original bundle (referred to as 'folio') numbers, which form a single sequence across the whole series. These folio numbers are also used as item numbers within the current catalogue references. Note that series HCA 15-20 share a single sequence of piece numbers: |
Related material: |
Other instance correspondence and papers are in HCA 52 Reports made by the Admiralty Registrar are in HCA 54 An alphabetical index by ship names (now largely superseded by the online catalogue entries) is IND 1/9459 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court, 1660-1875 |
Physical description: | 140 bundle(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
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