IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CCT/AK/46
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: EDMONTON COUNTY COURT
Date(s): 1894-1944
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.42 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Edmonton County Court
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The County Courts as they now exist have their origins in the County Courts Act 1846 with modifications etc under the County Courts Acts of 1888 and 1934. The area of jurisdiction of each court is set from time to time by the Lord Chancellor.
The original jurisdiction of the courts included claims of debt or for damages (except for libel, slander, seduction and breach of promise) not exceeding £400; claims for recovery of land (less than £100 rateable value); claims for the administration of estates, execution of trusts, foreclosure, redemption of mortgages; matters regarding the maintenance of infants, dissolution of partnerships, relief against fraud or mistake where the value of the estates or property etc was not more than £500; contentious business in probate and administration matters where the estate was less than £1000.
The courts have had varied and extensive jurisdictions under numerous Acts including questions between husband and wife under the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and compensation for injured workmen by employers under the Workmen's Compensation Acts 1897 and 1925.
More recent decisions and judgements of County Courts can be found at the Registrar for County Court Judgements, Cleveland Street, London W1.
Address of Edmonton County Court: 59 Fore Street, Edmonton, N18.
District of Court: Bowes Park, Winchmore Hill, Cockfosters, Clay Hill, Cooper's Lane, Edmonton, Enfield, Forty Hill, Palmers Green, Ponders End, Stoke Newington, Southgate, New Southgate, Tottenham, West Green and Wood Green. Please see Post Office Directories (available in the LMA History Library) for lists of County Courts existing at any one time together with an account of the area covered by each court.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Edmonton County Court, 1894-1944, comprising plaint and minute book and ordinary action book.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
2 volumes, in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by the Court.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010