Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series IV

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Reference: HCA 19
Title: High Court of Admiralty and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division: Instance Court: Instance Papers, Series IV
Description:

These papers comprise one of the six series of instance papers. They continue four earlier series of instance papers, and are themselves continued in series 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 bottomry, collision, damages, salvage, wages, etc.

The later cases, although initiated in the High Court of Admiralty, include papers filed from November 1875 in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

Date: 1860-1876
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

For indexes, see HCA 56/62

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

High Court of Admiralty, Instance Court, 1660-1875

Physical description: 251 bundle(s)

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