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| Apprenticeship agreement |
A legal agreement binding a young person to serve an employer as an apprentice in the exercise of a trade, for a fixed number of years, in order to learn the trade. The employer is also bound by the agreement to instruct and maintain the apprentice |
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| Case short details |
The normal short form used in citing law suits - first named plaintiff versus first named defendant e.g. Smith v Jones where the full details would be George Smith and Henry Philips v Elizabeth Jones widow, Humphrey Jones and William Smith |
| Chancery |
The court of the Lord Chancellor of England. The Chancery contained two distinct tribunals, one a court of common law, the other a court of equity. The business of the court of equity was much greater than that of the 'common law side', and references to the Court of Chancery usually mean the equity court unless otherwise specified |
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| Defendant |
The person or persons who are alleged by the plaintiff to have committed a wrong against the plaintiff |
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| Equity |
A system of justice based on conscience, rather than on the strict rules of common law. A decision 'in equity' was understood to be one given in accordance with natural justice, in a case for which the law did not provide adequate remedy, or in which its operation would have been unfair. These decisions, however, were taken as precedents, and thus 'equity' early became an organized system of rules, not less definite and rigid than those of 'law'. Equity courts required written submissions (pleadings) and written evidence |
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| Finding aids |
A whole range of catalogues and indexes designed to help researchers find their way to the relevant record. Some are online and easily accessible; others are rare printed books; others unique manuscript volumes written at the time the records were created |
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The person or persons bringing the suit into Chancery, petitioning the Lord Chancellor to provide redress against the defendant's alleged wrongdoing |
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| Testamentary |
To do with the interpretation or implementation of a last will and testament |
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