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Decrees of the High Court of Chancery, London, 1748-1881
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken | | Comment | The decrees occur when in litigation it was necessary to, mainly, call for creditors or legatees to make claims.
The Gazettes wording is usually "pursuant to a decree", occasionally "whereas by a decree", of the High Court of Chancery.
The parties named in the "cause" or case are often given to help finding them in the National Archives Research Guide on Chancery Equity suits, and explained in their leaflet "Chancery Equity suits after 1558" https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/chancery-equity-suits-after-1558/, which is essential reading when researching such litigation.
When trying to find them in the National Archives catalogue search Discovery https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ (which will not always be successful) limit the search to the C class.
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| Surname | Higgins | | | First names | Charles Thomas | | | Place | Devon  | | | Rank | Lieut.-colonel | | | Unit | Bengal Establishment | | | London Gazette date | 26 Aug 1831 | | | Page | 1740 | | | Details | The cause Charles Higgins and others v Edmund Ironside and Emma Maria Higgins. The creditors of Charles Thomas Higgins, formerly of Queen's Place, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, afterwards of Taunton, Somerset, esq., a Lieut.-colonel in the EIC service, on the Bengal Establishment, who died at Ashburton, Devon, on or about 29 June 1827, are to prove their debts. |
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The listing is of decrees made by the High Court of Chancery in London as reported on the official London Gazette, available online at https://www.thegazette.co.uk .
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