| Description | The judicial records comprise the formal records of the court in session. They are divided and listed in several sections or classes namely sessions books (QJB), commissions of the peace (QJC), insolvent debtors' papers (QJD), estreats (QJE), sessions files (QJF) and miscellaneous (QJX). Each class is preceded by an explanatory headnote.
The purpose of this introduction is to indicate the relationship between the main series of sessions books, sessions files and estreats, and to indicate to users how to attempt to follow cases through from instigation to completion.
The four main types of document recorded in the sessions books are recognizances, indictments, presentments and orders. The documents themselves, together with various other items are found in the sessions files. These are all explained fully in the class headnotes.
Notes of what happened or what should happen next appear on many entries in the sessions books and on documents in the sessions files. These show the court's decision as to what was to happen to the case in question. |