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Finding Out About Indentures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2016

Hester Swift
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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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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 269 - 273
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24 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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