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- Appeal cases after 1875
Keywords: chancery (court of)courts of lawlaw and orderlegal disputessupreme court - Chancery cases after 1875
Keywords: courts of lawlegal disputessupreme court - Chancery equity suits 1558-1875
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawequity courts - Chancery equity suits before 1558
Keywords: chancery (court of)civil litigationcourts of lawequity courts - Civil litigants
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawlegal disputes - Civil trials in the English assize courts 1656-1971 – key to records
Keywords: assize courtscivil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and ordertrials - Court of King’s Bench (Crown Side) cases 1675-1875
Keywords: courts of lawkings bench (court of)law and ordertrials - Court of King’s Bench records 1200-1600
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawkings bench (court of)trials - Court of Requests records 1485-1642
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawequity courtsrequests (court of) - Court of Star Chamber records 1485-1642
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawequity courtsstar chamber (court of)trials - Courts of law records held in other archives
Keywords: civil litigationconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and orderprisons and prisonerstrials - Crime and punishment
Keywords: convictscourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and order - Criminal and civil trials in the Welsh assize courts 1831-1971 – key to records
Keywords: assize courtscivil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalstrials - Criminal courts in England and Wales from 1972
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscrown courtsmagistrates' courtsold baileytrials - Criminal trials in the assize courts 1559-1971
Keywords: assize courtscourts of lawcrime and criminalstrials - Criminals and convicts
Keywords: central criminal courtconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalsold baileytrials - Divorce
Keywords: annulment of marriagecourts of lawdivorce - Equity proceedings in the Court of Exchequer
Keywords: courts of lawequity courtsexchequerlegal disputes - Funds in court
Keywords: courts of lawdormant fundsfunds in courtlegacies (probate)money in chanceryprobate - General eyres 1194-1348
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalseyres (general)general eyresmedieval periodtrials - High Court of Admiralty
Keywords: admiraltycoloniescourts of lawhigh court of admiraltyshippingtrials - Land inheritance in the Court of Wards and Liveries 1540-1645
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawdeeds (property ownership)land ownershipwards and liveries (court of) - Trials in the Old Bailey and the Central Criminal Court
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and orderold bailey
