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Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Pedigrees (Various Masters)
| Reference: | J 68 |
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| Title: | Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Pedigrees (Various Masters) |
| Description: |
These pedigrees were lodged in the former High Court of Chancery and its successor, the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, by claimants to the estates of deceased persons. They were filed in connection with actions concerning the administration of wills and intestacies and dealt with by various Chancery masters to whom the suit in question was referred by the court for investigation and report. |
| Date: | 1852-1977 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Court of Chancery, 1875 Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, 1875- |
| Physical description: | 1150 bundles and papers |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Selection and destruction information: | Preservation of these documents stems from a Disposal Schedule of 16 August 1895 Statutes, Rules and Schedules governing the disposal of Public Records by destrution or otherwise 1877-1913, HMSO, London, 1914, which expressly excludes such documents from destruction. |
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