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Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Hulbert's Miscellaneous Books
| Reference: | J 35 |
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| Title: | Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Hulbert's Miscellaneous Books |
| Description: |
Miscellaneous Books transferred from the chambers of Master Sir Charles Hulbert, who served in the Chancery Division of the High Court from 1905 until 1931. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Sir Charles Hulbert (1905-1931), in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk, were Master John William Hawkins (1864-1904) and, for causes with initial letters G-K, Master George Whiting (1852-1863) and, for causes with initial letters L-N, Master George Hume (1852-1863). They relate mainly to accounts in suits c 1850 to 1900; court order books 1864 to 1894 and files of proceedings concerning company winding-up c 1850 to 1900. There are also two registers of testators and intestates 1857 to 1897. |
| Date: | 1850-1903 |
| Arrangement: |
The books record a wide variety of Chancery business and have been broadly arranged according to the type of information they contain. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | C 336 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Court of Chancery, 1875 Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875- |
| Physical description: | 242 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 1914 Sir Charles HulbertKnight, 1932 |
| Selection and destruction information: | The documents, which originated with his predecessors, are the survivors of a weeding exercise carried out by the court under the terms of a Destruction Schedule of 14 July 1913, Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destruction or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, pp 192-194. |
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