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Finding Out About Indentures

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From the journal International Journal of Legal Information Volume 44 Issue 3

Abstract

In the Spring of 2015, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library was contacted by Mark Engsberg, Director of Library Services at Emory Law, enquiring about old English legal documents. Mark knows several of us at the Institute through the IALL conferences. He was emailing on behalf of Professor Tina Stark, an Emory faculty member, who was planning a visit to London and hoped to see collections of indentures while she was there.

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Foreign & International Law Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.

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    Percy Bordwell , An Eighteenth Century Deed, 8Iowa L. Bull. 73 (1922), p. 74.

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    Julian Cornwall , How to read old title deeds, XVI-XIX centuries, University of Birmingham, Dept. of Extra-Mural Studies, 1964, p. 10.

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    “indenture, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016.

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    8 & 9 Vict. c.106.

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    Vanessa Carr, ‘The Public Record Office, The National Archives and the historian’ <http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/PRO_TNA.html>; Norman James, ‘The Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC)’ <http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/historical_manuscripts_commission.html>

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    Cornwall (footnote 2), p. 25; The National Archives, ‘Court of Common Pleas, General Eyres and Court of King's Bench: Feet of Fines Files, Richard I - Henry VII’ <http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5391>

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    The National Archives, ‘Land conveyances by feet of fines 1182–1833’ < http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/land-conveyance-feet-of-fines-1182-1833/>

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    Statute of Frauds, 29 Cha. 2, c.3.

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    Julian Cornwall , How to Read Old Title Deeds, XVI-XIX centuries, (University of Birmingham, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1964), p. 9.

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    Ibid., p. 12;  S.J.Stoljar, A History of Contract at Common Law (Australian National University Press, 1975), p. 16.

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    27 Hen. VIII, c. 16.

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    Daniel Greenberg (ed.), Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, 4th ed. (Sweet and Maxwell, 2015), “Bargain and sale.”

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    Mick Woodley (ed.), Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 12th ed. (Sweet and Maxwell, 2013), “Lease and release.”

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    Law of Property Act 1925, s.51(1).

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    Daniel Greenberg (ed.), Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, 4th ed. (Sweet and Maxwell, 2015), “Bond.”

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    The image of this document is at <http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9334789 >; it is handwritten, in Latin.

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    1966, Cmnd 3084 (“Denning Report”). These weeding exercises were carried out for practical reasons: “If our proposals are implemented,” said Denning, “the Public Record Office alone will be relieved of two hundred tons of records (occupying 15,000 feet of shelving),” (p. vii).

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Published Online: 2016-11-25
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https://doi.org/10.1017/jli.2016.39

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Book Reviews
  2. After the Natural Law: How the Classical Worldview Supports Our Moral and Political Values
  3. The Concept of Military Objectives in International Law and Practice
  4. The Arab Spring: An Essay on Revolution and Constitutionalism
  5. The Self, Ethics and Human Rights: Lacan, Levinas & Alterity
  6. Articles
  7. Administration of State Sponsored Local Justice System: An Appraisal on the Legal Framework of Village Courts in Bangladesh
  8. Rethinking Legal Citation: A Bibliographic Essay
  9. Expansive Legal Research
  10. Finding Out About Indentures
  11. The Constituent Assembly of India: Recollecting Contributions of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, the Constitutional Adviser
  12. International Calendar
  13. THE INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR
  14. Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
  15. JLI volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
  16. Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter
  17. JLI volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
  18. Editorial Comment
  19. EDITORIAL COMMENT
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