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The Court of Delegates, or High Court of Delegates, was a court of appeals from the Court of Arches (Province of Canterbury) and the Court of Chancery (Province of York), including their peculiars, royal peculiars, and the Irish probate courts. "It was so called because the Judges were delegated for each prticular case... The High Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established ...Wills [continued to be] proved before the latter body until the creation of the Court of Probate [1857]."<ref name="null">Harwood. H. W. Forsyth, ed. "The Genealogist." (Family History Library book 942 B2gqm, N.S. vol. 11, | The Court of Delegates, or High Court of Delegates, was a court of appeals from the Court of Arches (Province of Canterbury) and the Court of Chancery (Province of York), including their peculiars, royal peculiars, and the Irish probate courts. "It was so called because the Judges were delegated for each prticular case... The High Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established ...Wills [continued to be] proved before the latter body until the creation of the Court of Probate [1857]." <ref name="null">Harwood. H. W. Forsyth, ed. "The Genealogist." (Family History Library book 942 B2gqm, N.S. vol. 11, page 165.)</ref> Read more in ''The High Court of Delegates'' by G.I.O Duncan. [http://books.google.com/books?id=re88AAAAIAAJ&dq=high+court+of+delegates&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=3kxrDlR7wL&sig=RmxbXAKZTyjvvlXjF-F3TtVcBro&hl=en&ei=uKf5SvvoCJG0sgPk2dzYCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false Select pages] from the book are on Google Books.<br> | ||
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