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Law

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 405 Collections and/or Records:

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Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench from Easter Term, 1 Charles I., to Hilary Term, 3 Charles I., Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ll.03.13
Scope and Contents

Reports of cases decided in the King's Bench from Easter Term, 1 Charles I., to Hilary Term, 3 Charles I., with the Case of the King v. Eaton in the Duchy of Lancaster Chamber, Hil. 2 Charles I., and the Cases of Sir Edmund Bacon, and Whitmore v. Porter, in the Exchequer, Mich. 3 Charles I., at considerable length.

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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Reports of cases in King's Bench etc.

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8518
Scope and Contents

Brief reports of cases in King's Bench, Mich. 1663 to Mich. 1664, probably taken at first hand, including a few 'Chequer Chamber' cases. There is also an alphabetical table of the names of cases.

Dates: 1663-1664
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).
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Reports on cases in the Court of Sessions, Scotland, 1661-2

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.101
Scope and Contents

Incomplete at end, the last case breaking off at foot of fo. 68r. fos. 68v-140: blank. fo. 2: 'David Hope Empt. 17mo die Novembris 1735'. fo. 3: Puttick and Simpson sale reference.

Dates: 1666 (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).
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Robert Needham Cust: Case Judgements

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6198-6201
Scope and Contents

Judgements in cases in Lahore and Amritsar.

Dates: 1858-1860
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).
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Sales in fee-farm, 1630

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.32
Scope and Contents

Particulars of a sale in fee-farm of lands to Ralph Freeman, Esq., and others by King Charles I. There are six pages at the end concerning a similar sale. See also MSS Dd.13.18 and Ee.03.07.

Dates: 1630
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).
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Scottish laws and statutes, Mid sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.21
Scope and Contents According to an index on the inside of the title-page, the collection contains: ‘Modus componendi cartas’; ‘Exceptiones contra cartas’; ‘Expositiones vocabulorum’; ‘Tabula librorum’; ‘Prologus libri regie majestatis’; ‘Tractatus qui incipit In eligendo maritu’; ‘Statuta regis Malcolm Mackeneth’; ‘Statuta regis Roberti secundi (cognominati de Bruce)’; ‘Statuta Willi regis’; ‘Leges Alexandri regis filii Willi’; ‘Statuta secunda regis Roberti’; ‘Modus procedendi in itinere camerarie’; ‘Leges...
Dates: Mid sixteenth century
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).
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Selden Society: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7937
Dates: 1887-1996
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).
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Sir Edward Coke's reports, 4-6 James I; Sir Edward Coke's speech reported by the Bishop of Lincoln, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ll.04.09
Scope and Contents

(1) 'Lord [Chief Justice] Cooke's Reports.' 4-6 James I. (2) 'Aprill 9th [1628]. Sir Edwarde Cooke his Speeche reported by the Bishoppe Of Lincolne' [John Williams]. This is the Bp. of Lincoln's Report to the House of Lords of the speech of Sir Edward Coke, upon the liberties of the subject, delivered at a conference of the two Houses.

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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Sir Matthew Hale: The History and analysis of the Common Laws of England

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3820
Scope and Contents

'Copyed from the Bishop of Worcester's copy that was taken after the originall under My Ld Ch. Justice Hales own hand before it was abused.' pp. ii-vi, 105-10: blank.

Dates: 1696
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).
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Sir Richard Hutton: Journals

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6862-3
Dates: 1614-1639
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).
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Speeches and broadcasts, 1914 - 1982

Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 8
Scope and Contents

Notes for speeches and lectures on various subjects including international affairs (including law), the Labour Party, disarmament, sports and athletics, the London School of Economics and the League of Nations.

Dates: 1914 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 08 Jan 1957 - 06 Nov 1957

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/61A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (14 January, meeting of constituency branch chairmen, 28 Hyde Park Gate) on subjects including: the work done in the constituencies; the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] as Prime Minister; the decision by the United States to play a greater part in the Middle East and their relations with Britain; emergency steps to strengthen the economy; the need to support the new government. Source material includes draft notes by Anthony Montague Browne...
Dates: 08 Jan 1957 - 06 Nov 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Student notebook on canon law, Late sixteenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.07
Scope and Contents

‘Brocardica quæ jure canonico sic dicuntur quæ sunt materiæ contrariis rationibus æque probabilibus involutæ’. Apparently incomplete: it is paged from 1 to 93 and after 42 blank leaves paged again from 200 to 246. There are six leaves of index, and three of references, principally to statutes from the reign of King Edward III.

Dates: Late sixteenth century
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).
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The Case for the Rights of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Scilly Islands

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6459
Scope and Contents An exhaustive examination of the case for the rights of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Scilly Islands, drawn up by Sir G. Harrison, 346 folios: (fo. 4) introductory remarks; (fo. 7) records bearing on the matter from 1300; (fo. 25) further records proving the right of the Duchy to the islands; (fo. 31) evidence and instructions for the drawing up a legal report; (fo. 32v) report drawn up by W. Illingworth, record agent; (fo. 35v) citation of records by W. Illingworth to prove that the islands...
Dates: 1833 (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).
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The five Readings of Robert Callis, Serjeant-at-Law, upon the Statute of Sewers, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ll.05.09
Scope and Contents

The five Readings of Robert Callis, Serjeant-at-Law, upon the Statute of Sewers, 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5, delivered at Gray's Inn in August, 1622.

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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The Papers of Lord Silkin of Dulwich

Reference Code: GBR/0014/SILK
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of political and legal papers. The earlier papers mostly relate to Silkin's time at Attorney General including correspondence files, press cuttings and printed papers. The later papers consist of Bills, correspondence and proceedings from the House of Lords as well as constituency correspondence and papers relating to Silkin's other interests.

Dates: 1968 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access: This collection is CLOSED until it has been catalogued.
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The Papers of Peter Rawlinson

Reference Code: GBR/0014/RWSN
Scope and Contents

Papers including correspondence, legal case papers, speeches and articles.

Dates: 1873 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Dingle Foot

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DGFT
Scope and Contents

The material held at Churchill Archives Centre deals with Sir Dingle's career as a Liberal and then a Labour Member of Parliament, as well as with his distinguished position in the legal profession, particularly with regard to Commonwealth countries and with his literary skills.

Dates: 1909 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open (except for a few files which are closed under data protection) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht

Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, legal papers, lectures, literary papers and later biographical material relating to Lauterpacht's collected papers and his biography, written by his son, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht.

Dates: 1920 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Proceedings at the Justice Seat held for the Forest of Dean at Gloucester Castle the tenth of July, 1634; Court Rolls of the Manor of Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex, Seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ll.04.07
Scope and Contents (1) 'The Proceedings at the Justice Seate held for the Forrest of Dean at Gloucester Castle the tenthe of Julie, 1634, before the righte Honoble Henry Earle of Holland, Lord Cheife Justice in Eyre, assisted by Justice Jones, Barron Trever, Sr John Bridgeman, Justice of Chester, as it was delivered to the King's Majestie by Sr John Finche.' Corresponds with LI.03.11 (6), but concludes with £20,230 instead of £20,220. (2) Court Rolls of the Manor of Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex, 1...
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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Tracts, a commonplace book, and moot cases, Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.29
Scope and Contents

(1) ‘Some considerations concerning episcopacie’, seventeenth century; (2) ‘Chronologicæ demonstratio’, seventeenth century; (3) brief notes on parts of the epistles to the Galatians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and the Revelation of St John, seventeenth century; (4) divinity commonplace book, seventeenth century; (5) moot cases, in legal French, eighteenth century.

Dates: Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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).
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Translation of Anglo-Saxon laws

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1029
Scope and Contents

'Sketch of a plan for a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon laws etc.', unsigned.

Dates: 1820 (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).
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Treatise on cases in chancery, Mid seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.26
Scope and Contents

Causes in chancerie gathered by Sir George Davys one of the masters of the chancerie anno 1601 out of the labours of Mr William Lambert'.

Dates: Mid 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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Treatise on forests, c. 1600

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.39
Scope and Contents

'A readinge or declaracion of th' authorityes, libertyes, and offices of a forest, made uppon the statute called Carta de foresta by one Traherne de Lincoln's Inn'.

Dates: c. 1600
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).
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Treatise on Scottish law, Late seventeenth century

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.21
Scope and Contents

The work is divided into two parts. The first is 'The abridgement of forme of process befor the lords', together with 'The tabulating of summons'. The second is 'Ane abridgement of the most materiall acts of parliament selected according to the order of the alphabet, by Sir Andrew Gilmour, advocate, knight and baronett, 1668'.

Dates: Late seventeenth century
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).