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BOW COUNTY COURT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CCT/AK/15

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BOW COUNTY COURT

Date(s): 1847-1962

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.87 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Bow 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 Bow County Court: Bow Road, E3; later 96 Romford Road, Stratford.

District of the Court: Bromley, Stratford, West Ham, Buckhurst Hill and parts of Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. 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 Bow County Court, 1847-1962, including minute books; plaint and minute books; Workmen's Compensation Act register; and default actions books.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records 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 Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
County courts | Courts | Administration of justice
Court papers | Court records | Records (documents) | Records and correspondence | Information sources
Legal history | Law
Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Legal systems | Law
Workers compensation | Compensation | Administration of justice
Workmens Compensation Act 1897 c37 | Employment legislation | Legislation | Law

Personal names

Corporate names
Bow County Court

Places
Bethnal Green | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bow | Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bromley (district) | Bromley | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Buckhurst Hill | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Shoreditch | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Stratford | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
West Ham | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Whitechapel | Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hackney
Newham