Law
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 463 Collections and/or Records:
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Copies of orders made in the court of Star Chamber, Mid seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.81
Scope and Contents
The orders are from the time of Queen Elizabeth I; begins 'Thomas Egerton dominus custos magni sigilli Angliæ intr. sexto die Maii anno tricesimo octavo reginæ Eliz.'
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Copies of royal letters and legal documents, Mid or late seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.27
Scope and Contents
(1) A high commission for causes ecclesiastical issued in 1634; the copy of the docket appended to it, signed by William Noye (the attorney general) shows that it gave ‘Divers powers for punishing such crimes as were not comprehended in anie other commission; such as blasphemy, notorious drunkenness, refractorie scismatiques, derogation from the function of the ministry, misbehavior between married persons’; (2) rules, orders and writs made and issued by and out of the court of wards and...
Dates:
Mid or late seventeenth century
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Counterpart of an Indenture of Release by Charles Ashton, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, sole surviving trustee of the Manor of Barton Burwych alias Wards, and of certain lands, tenements, etc., in the parish of Barton, in the County of Cambridge, to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, in whose behalf the trust had been created, 1744
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.94
Scope and Contents
Dated 20 November, 1744, signed and sealed by the said Charles Ashton. Ashton's deceased co-trustees were, Sir William Dawes, Bart., D.D., Master of Catharine; James Johnson, D.D., Master of Sidney; Charles Roderick, D.D., Provost of King's; and Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity. It appears from the recital in the Indenture that this property was purchased by the University of Devereux Martin, Esq., and Dorothy, his Wife, in the year 1681. For a history of the Manor of Barton see...
Dates:
1744
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Court records, Mid sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.04
Scope and Contents
Copy of the rolls of the court leete and court baron of the manor of 'Seynt Jamys juxta Bristoll', before Sir Nicholas Poyntz, steward of the priory of St James (Robert Cysseter being prior) from 27 to 38 Hen. VIII. Interspersed with these are records of the pleas in the court of pie-powder, before the same steward, from 30 Hen. VIII to 3 Edw. VI: 'Placita curie dni regis pedis pulverizati ville Bristol, secundum usum et consuetudinem eiusdem ville tempore quo non exeat memoria ...'.
Dates:
Mid sixteenth century
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Fonds
Courtney Stanhope Kenny papers, 1708 - 1930
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.
Dates:
1708 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Fonds
Cranworth Law Society, 1934-[1983]
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/4/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Records of Classical Society, Cranworth Society, Debating Society, Doughty / Literary Society, Maitland Historical Society, Medical Society, Scientific and Danby Societies.
Dates:
1934-[1983]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.
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De Curiis Ecclesiasticis, quæ celebrantur auctoritate Reverendissimi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, intra Civitatem Londinensem, Beginning seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.30
Scope and Contents
On the back of the fly-leaf at the end is a memorandum of the sale, on 9 Apr., 1606, by Haydon Waterson to Will. Edwards of Little Walsingham, Norf., Apothecary, of a tenement in that parish.
Dates:
Beginning seventeenth century
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From the Collection:
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Dictionary of law terms, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.60
Scope and Contents
English and French is given in parallel columns; the English entries run from 'Abate' to 'Yard land'.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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Digest book, or index to the law reports, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.01-MS Dd.02.04
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically from 'Abatement' to'Waste'. The volumes are paged throughout, but irregularly, many leaves being interspersed unpaged, some blank, some bearing entries. At the end a table or alphabetical index has been begun, but only one page is completed.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Discourse on the authority of parliament, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.55
Scope and Contents
'A discourse of the high court of parliament and of the authority of the same, collected out of the common lawes of the land and other good authors'. See also MS Ee.02.32, no. 3, where the work is attributed to Raphe Starkey.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Discourse, treatise and queries, Mid seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.30
Scope and Contents
(1) 'A discourse upon the comission of Bridewell'; (2) 'A treatise concernant le ley fait com suppose per Zouch'; (3) '30 queries of parsons and of parsonages'. The Zouch to whom the first portion is assigned has been tentatively identified as Dr Richard Zouch, regius professor of civil law at the University of Oxford.
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Discourses and notes on legal subjects, 1611-1614
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.14
Scope and Contents
'Divers and uncertayne discourses del ley', together with notes of several readings, from 2 March 1611 to 6 August 1614. On the first page is written 'By mee Thomas Wateridge'. About the middle of the book are 12 pages headed 'Joco seria. Of divers subts.'; these consist of anecdotes related by members of the Inn, in the year 1611.
Dates:
1611-1614
Conditions Governing Access:
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Discourses on the marriage of Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, and Lady Catherine Grey, Late sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.03
Scope and Contents
A collection of discourses relating to the case of ‘the marriage betweene the earle of Hertford and the lady Katheryn Gray’. All are original documents except no. 6. There is a table of contents from which the following titles are taken: (1) ‘A discourse written by Johannes Oldendorpius concerning the former mariage of Henry earle of Pembroke with the said Lady Katherine’; at the end is written (evidently in the autograph of Oldendorp, with his seal affixed): ‘Ita Johannes Oldendorpius,...
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Documents relating to nobility, privileges and legal cases, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.54
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A treatise concerning the nobilitie according to the lawe of England’, written in the time of King James I but with no note of its author; see also MS Ee.04.22; (2) extracts from the charters of the city of London concerning its privileges, from the time of King William I to that of King Edward IV; it terminates abruptly at the end of the 12th page; (3) reports of cases adjudged in the king’s bench, 9 and 10 Jac. I, among which appear also cases decided in chancery, and on error in the...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Doggett Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas, in the reign of Charles II, Mid to late seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.30
Scope and Contents
The cases are from Salop and Staffordshire. Three of the mem. are signed by Lockhart, who was second Prothonotary of the Common Pleas from Hil. Term, 20 and 21 Charles II. to and including Hil. Term, 28 and 29 Charles II.; and the 4th by Wyrley, who was third Prothonotary from Easter Term, 20 Charles II. to and including Mich. Term, 39 Charles II. Lockhart's Doggetts after Hil. Term 21 and 22 Charles II. are not in the Record Office. See 2d Rep. Dep. R, Keep., App. 11. p. 79. These Rolls are...
Dates:
Mid to late seventeenth century
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Dominium Monasterii de Furneis, 1603 - 1625
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.07.11
Scope and Contents
'Computa omnium et singulorum Firmariorum et aliorum ministrorum Jacobi Regis computabilium omnium et singulorum maneriorum, terrarum, &c., in dicto Dominio, a Festo S. Michaelis, 2 Jacobi, usque ad idem Festum, 3 Jacobi.'
Dates:
1603 - 1625
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Epitomes Juris Civilis, authore Constantino Harmenopulo, Judice Thessalonicensi, liber primus Latine redditus, Sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.45
Scope and Contents
Harmenopulus died at Constantinople A.D. 1383
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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From the Collection:
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Excerpts from the rolls, Sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.19
Scope and Contents
Copies from the rolls of the time of King Henry III. Prefixed is a list of the editions of the ancient physicians in a hand similar to that of Richard Bentley.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Expositio in Pandectas Justiniani, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.06.05
Scope and Contents
'Expositio in Pandectas Justiniani': imperfect at the end, the last nine chapters of Book L. being wanting.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Extracts from public rolls, Early seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.42
Scope and Contents
Extracts from the public rolls concerning pleas of the forest in the county of Oxford, taken before W. le Breton, 40 Hen. III.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Extracts from the rolls, Sixteenth or seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.02.07
Scope and Contents
Extracts from the rolls in the tower concerning the tenure of lands in the counties of Dorset and Berkshire, extending from the reign of King Edward II to Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Sixteenth or seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Forest laws and ordinances from Canute to Henry VIII, Late sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.06.53
Scope and Contents
The only article in English is the charter of King Edward the Confessor beginning 'Iche Edward kinge have given of my forest keepinge ...'. At the end of the volume is a folding leaf containing a table of the sovereigns of England from King Edward the Confessor to Queen Elizabeth I, giving the period of their respective reigns, date of their death, and location of their tomb.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Forms of instruments in ecclesiastical courts, Seventeenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.31
Scope and Contents
A collection of forms of licences, citations, sequestrations and other instruments in the ecclesiastical courts; issued principally in the name of Robert King. The volume also contains a few notes of pleadings from the reign of King Charles I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Forms of proceedings in ecclesiastical courts, Late sixteenth century
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.36
Scope and Contents
Many are in the name of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury. Incomplete.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Frederic William Maitland: Lectures on Real Property
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6173
Scope and Contents
Written in a fair hand from the notes of a student attending the lectures. The lectures probably related to Maitland's course on 'Advanced Real Property', held at Cambridge University between 1887 and 1892. There are references to chapters, indicating that the writing may have been intended for publication. Correspondence found in MS.Add.4403/247-250 suggests that the note-taker was probably Charles Samuel Jackson. The papers include typescript notes on suit of court, hundred courts,...
Dates:
1887-1892 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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