2015.0047
LEGAL DOCUMENTS (INDEXES 4, 9 AND 10) [1911-1953]
Creator(s): 
Blake & Riggall [-]

The boxes in this series contain files of Blake & Riggall draft legal documents and correspondence acting on instructions received from their clients for the period c.1913-1953. The files are organised into three separate sequences which are accessible using file numbers that can be obtained from an alphabetical index for that sequence. These indexes are numbered Index 4, Index 9 and Index 10. The indexes record the name of the client, names of parties, file number, year, and nature of draft (except index 4). Each sequence of files has a slightly different arrangement which is reflected in the corresponding alphabetical index. The index entries indicate the date on which a client began instructing lawyers at Blake & Riggall for the preparation of legal documents on their behalf. The index provides access to these draft files through a file number that is recorded for each entry. Entries in these indexes are arranged in alphabetical order by first letter only of the surname or name of the organisation. Full details of how to search these indexes can be found in the catalogue description of series 1977.0081.
Examples of the kinds of client legal documents that can be found in this series include: mortgages; sales or transfers of property; binding agreements between parties; wills and probates; and so on.
Both Index 4 and Index 9 are organised by a simple sequential file number which you can use to find the box that contains the particular file. Index 10 is slightly different, using a separate file number sequence for each letter of the alphabet, which means that the file number is a combination of an alphabetical letter and sequential number. The exception to the above order are files of major clients which are organised into their own separate boxes at the end of alphabetical sequences. For instance Australian Estates Co Ltd has its own boxes of files at the end of all the other A boxes, and Dalgety & Co Ltd at the end of the D boxes.  Each of these also have their own file number sequence. Take note of the range of file numbers for each box. These often include notes indicating whether a file within the range of file numbers it is supposed to contain has been given its own box(es) due to the size of the files. Also noted are files that are missing for one reason or another from that box. Some of these may turn up in another series entitled 'Old Wills' (2015.0083), which is organised alphabetically.

743 units (89.16m)
Business, organisations