Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:
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Lord Chancellor, 1985
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SLKN 11/3/7
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.
Dates:
1985
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures of individual files are noted in the paper catalogue, please ask staff for further details.
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Manerium de Thorpe, Comitatu Surriæ, 1603 - 1625
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.10
Scope and Contents
'Supervisus ibidem factus 12 Novembris, 2 Jacobi I., per Johannem Hamon et alios, virtute Commissionis Regis ex Scaccario directæ.' This manor had formed part of the possessions of Chertsey Monastery, and in 1590 was granted by Q. Elizabeth to her Latin Secretary, Sir John Wolley, and at the time of this inquisition was in the possession of his son, Sir Francis. See Manning and Bray's Surrey, III. 242.
Dates:
1603 - 1625
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maxims of the law, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.04.16
Scope and Contents
A legal tract of Sir Francis Bacon, alternatively known as 'Rules and maxims of the common laws of England' (see also MS Hh.06.06). It has the two prefaces dedicated to 'Her sacred majestie'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Minutes of the Cambridge Law Club, 1937 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.IX.53
Scope and Contents
The volume is marked 'vol. 2'. The volume is mainly blank.
Dates:
1937 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Minutes of the Faculty Board of Law, predecessor and subordinate bodies, 1873 - 1968
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.122-31, 180-3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.
Dates:
1873 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Norfolk: Quarter Sessional forms, c 1611
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.49
Scope and Contents
(1) Precedents relating to the office of a Justice of the Peace, containing forms of warrants, indentures, recognizances, licences, commitments, etc., for use in the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, with an index; (2) pages from a copybook; (3) a copy of ‘Orders agreed upon for the house of correction at Acle, the 10th of May, 1611; on the last page occurs the name of ‘Anthony Parmenter’, in whose handwriting the book appears to be.
Dates:
c 1611
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Notebook of a law student
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3295
Scope and Contents
Originally formed part II of a law commonplace book, with entries O-W in 'law French' written in 2 cols (mostly recto), and an index on fos ii-iii. A later owner has used blank leaves and spaces to insert the following copies and notes: (fos 9-40v) Readings of [Sir] Charles Calthorpe, Trin. Term 1573 - Easter Term 1575, English, afterwards published as The relation between the lord of a manor and the coppy-holder his tenant, London, 1635 (repr. 1917, Manorial Soc. publ. no. 10). The present...
Dates:
1575 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Notebook of a law student, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.44
Scope and Contents
(1) A summary of civil law, arranged tabularly, occupying 56 leaves; (2) Miscellaneous notes from the Christian fathers and upon matters religious and ecclesiastical, occupying 11 leaves, with a treatise 'De diversis regulis juris antiqui' (unfinished) and notes on various theological and ecclesiastical matters; (3) 'Miscellanea': theological notes, irregularly written from both ends.
Dates:
Undated
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notebook of cases, Sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.15
Scope and Contents
Alphabetically arranged from 'Earle' to 'Wynes'. Apparently it is a portion only of the whole work, as it begins at f. 157. The paging extends to f. 272.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes concerning escheator's sessions, and other documents relating to landholding in Cambridgeshire, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.38
Scope and Contents
Contains short notes of the day and place of each session of the Escheator in Cambridgeshire for the years 1639-41, and the names of the persons summoned to appear. Intermixed with these notes are: (1) rental of lands lying in Cambridgeshire and formerly belonging to various religious houses and chantries which were at that time in the hands of the Crown; (2) ‘Abstract of all the Tenths in the receipt of the accompts for Cambridgeshire’; (3) rental of lands situated in Huntingdonshire...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes of cases in Star Chamber, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.51
Scope and Contents
Covers cases from 17-20 James I. Amongst them is the case of Sir John Bennet, judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, for corrupt practices in the administration of his office. On the last leaf is written, in the same hand, 'A parcel of a pamphlett cast in the courte by Williams, bearinge the title of Balaam's Ass, for which hee were after exeuted', followed by verse beginning '4 letters doe the personn shewe ...', concerning the Williams of the Middle Temple executed in 1619. See also...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes of grants, Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.28
Scope and Contents
'Dimissiones sub magno sigillo Anglie de anno primo dne Elizabethe regine': notes of the grants which have passed the seal, names of grantees, the premises demised, and the rents reserved, during the years 2-43 inclusive of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Late sixteenth and/or early seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes of petitions to chancery, with their answers, 1620s?
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.05
Scope and Contents
Covers petitions from July 1622 to May 1623. In the catalogue of John Moore's library the volume is said to be 'Archbishop Williams's original book of causes tryed before him when Lord Keeper'.
Dates:
1620s?
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes of readings on tithes, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.08
Scope and Contents
At the conclusion appears 'This last speech being ended, Mr Attorney Generall Sr Robert Heath being then present, answered the same, and was pleased in the name of the whole house to honour the reader much .... Trinioni deo gloria in æternum. John Wylde’. Sir Robert Heath was appointed Attorney-General in 1625.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notes on Inheritance Laws and Mathematics, c 1665-c 1672
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3958.2: 32-33
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
Dates:
c 1665-c 1672
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Notes on the security for rent charge, Early seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.13
Scope and Contents
A collection of notes of 'The securitie for rent-charge', written in the time of King Charles I and incomplete at the beginning.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Official: Cabinet: Legislation Committee (Trade Union Bill): papers 1 - 8., 28 Oct 1925 - 10 Jun 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/131
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the Trade Unions, including: copies of the Trade Union Acts, 1871 and 1913, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, and the Trade Disputes Act, 1906; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the law covering picketing and peaceful persuasion; Sir Edward Troup [former Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office], on intimidation (1911-1922); drafts of the Lock-outs and Strikes (Prohibition) Bill and the...
Dates:
28 Oct 1925 - 10 Jun 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 20 - 40., 18 Nov 1925 - 05 Feb 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/86
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on subjects including bills coming before the Home Affairs Committee; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on reform of the constitution of the University of London; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], Secretary of State for India and 1st Lord Reading [earlier Rufus Isaacs], Viceroy of India, on Indian immigrants in South Africa; a Ministry of Labour...
Dates:
18 Nov 1925 - 05 Feb 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 40 - 69., 13 Dec 1921 - 04 Mar 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/29
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on airship development; the Financial Secretary to the Treasury [Walter Guinness, later 1st Lord Moyne] on the Trade Facilities Bill and Sandwich [Kent] Port and Haven Bill; a draft of the Sandwich Port and Haven Bill; the report of the Safeguarding of Industries Committee; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on unemployment benefit and the electrical trades...
Dates:
13 Dec 1921 - 04 Mar 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 61 - 80., 02 Feb 1926 - 05 Mar 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/88
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the linen industry, the Merchandise Marks (Imported Goods) Bill, the British film industry and the report of the Food Council on short weight; George Lane-Fox, [later 1st Lord Bingley] Secretary for Mines, on the position of the coal industry; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on bills to...
Dates:
02 Feb 1926 - 05 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 70 - 100., 20 Jan 1925 - 07 Mar 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/30
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks, [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill and the Criminal Justice Bill, 1925; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Navy Estimates and arbitration in the Civil Service; 1st Lord Cave [the Lord Chancellor] Chairman of the Church Assembly Measures Committee, and the School Teachers Superannuation Committee, on the Committees' reports; Arthur Watson on the...
Dates:
20 Jan 1925 - 07 Mar 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 81 - 100., 05 Feb 1926 - 29 Mar 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/89
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the emergency supply and transport organization, and licensing hours for clubs; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], Secretary of State for India, on appeals from India; a draft of the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Bill; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; 1st Lord Cave, the Lord Chancellor, on appeals to the Privy Council...
Dates:
05 Feb 1926 - 29 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 119., 05 Feb 1926 - 20 Mar 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/90
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Bill; drafts of the Judicial Proceedings Bill and the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including the Empire Marketing Grant and Australia; [Sir Warren Fisher], Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, on Government lands and buildings; Leo Amery,...
Dates:
05 Feb 1926 - 20 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 139., 10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/31
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] on subjects including higher commands in the Egyptian Army, the political outlook in the Far East, foreign policy and security, and the strength of the Egyptian Army; the decisions of the League council on reports of the investigations into the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Sir Cecil Hurst, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office, on the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Walter...
Dates:
10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Cabinet: papers 116 to 140., Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/158
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a report of the Crown proceedings committee; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, and Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Amery on reform of the House of Lords and information on the coastal defences of Southern Ireland [Ireland]; [1st] Lord Peel, 1st Commissioner of Works, and Walter Guinness [later...
Dates:
Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open