Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and Queen's Bench Division, Admiralty Court: Instance Minute Books

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Details of HCA 27
Reference: HCA 27
Title: High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and Queen's Bench Division, Admiralty Court: Instance Minute Books
Description:

The instance minute books in this series are of the High Court of Admiralty, and, from November 1875, of the Admiralty courts of the High Court of Justice.

The books contain brief notes to all the proceedings in instance cases, entered under its reference number. Particulars of all documents filed, and of all decrees and orders of the court are also given. Until 1918 each volume has its own index of ships' names. The transactions recorded in these instance minute books are detailed more fully than in the corresponding cause books.

Date: 1860-2005
Related material:

A printed index to instance cause minutes and papers, 1860-1866, is in: 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

Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 1875-1970

Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice; Queens Bench Division, Admiralty Court, 1970-

Physical description: 412 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Selection and destruction information: The corresponding cause books were destroyed under the authority of a Destruction Schedule of 21 September 1915.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Unpublished finding aids:

There was a card index for HCA 20 and HCA 27 covering 1914-1924, but all the data from it has now been added to the catalogue. Another index covering the years 1860-1885 (IND 1/9460) gives ships' names and the minute book folio numbers. These numbers correspond with the numbers given to the associated instance cause papers in HCA 19 and HCA 20

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