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81
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN303
 
 
Dates:
1764-1848
 
 
Abstract:  
Volumes in this series index the enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery that were filed with the Chancery clerks in New York City. The volumes do not index decrees filed in Albany, or decrees of the Vice Chancellors in the eight Chancery Circuits. The four volumes contain essentially the same data, .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

82
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN304
 
 
Dates:
1830-1846
 
 
Abstract:  
Volumes index those decrees in the Court of Chancery and the Chancery Circuits throughout the state that were docketed in the office of the Assistant Register in New York City, if the decree required a money payment by the losing party..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

83
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
 
 
Abstract:  
An insolvent debtor could with consent of creditors assign his property to an assignee (trustee), who sold it to pay the creditors. The assignment consists of two parts: first, a summary of the insolvent debtor's petition for relief, the notice to creditors of the pending assignment, and the judge's .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

84
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN508
 
 
Dates:
1748-1823
 
 
Abstract:  
These special bail pieces were filed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. The bail piece states the names of the parties and the surety for satisfaction of the judgment if the plaintiff prevailed..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

85
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
 
 
Abstract:  
This volume contains certifications by the clerk of the city and county of New York that constables have attended a term of Circuit Court held in New York County and, before 1823, in the court's additional "sittings." The entry for each court term lists the names of the constables and the number of .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

86
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN519
 
 
Dates:
1684-1848
 
 
Abstract:  
Most of the documents in this series are Supreme Court judgment rolls, issue rolls, and nisi prius rolls on parchment. Other civil case documents include recognizances, writs of capias, writs of venire, and other writs. Criminal case documents (all pre-dating 1776) include indictments, informations, .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

87
Creator:
New York (Colony). Court of Oyer and Terminer
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN521
 
 
Dates:
1716-1717, 1721-1749
 
 
Abstract:  
Minute books contain a record of proceedings in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in each county outside of New York City and County. Minutes for each court session include a list of grand jurors, entries of indictments returned and defendants arraigned, and minutes of trials and sentences..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

88
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN527
 
 
Dates:
1785-1851
 
 
Abstract:  
This series is the docket of money judgments filed and docketed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. Each entry includes name of the party against whom judgment was obtained (usually defendant); name of the party in whose favor judgment was obtained (usually plaintiff); .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

89
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN543
 
 
Dates:
1736-1840
 
 
Abstract:  
Collection contains writs of arrest and a small number of other writs, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Over ninety percent of the documents are writs of capias ad respondendum, ordering a sheriff to arrest a civil defendant, thereby bringing him into the court's custody to answer the .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

90
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN545
 
 
Dates:
1772-1776, 1790-1799 (with gaps)
 
 
Abstract:  
Registers contain lists of writs sealed and issued by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. Each entry in a register includes the date of issuance, names of plaintiff and defendant, and type of writ. County is mentioned if a writ was directed to a sheriff outside of New York .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

91
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN547
 
 
Dates:
1783-1812
 
 
Abstract:  
This small series consists of writs of certiorari. Writs were directed to the Court of Common Pleas (Mayor's Court) in New York City and County and in several other counties in eastern New York. Most of the writs have attached to them the return of proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

92
Creator:
New York (Colony). Court of Assizes
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
JN592
 
 
Dates:
1681-1682
 
 
Abstract:  
Documents in this small series relate to civil cases. Two documents are complaints ("Bill ad Assisas") and the third is a defendant's answer to the plaintiff's claim..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

93
Creator:
New York (State). Insurance Department. Office of Counsel
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
17202
 
 
Dates:
1940-1963
 
 
Abstract:  
This series consists of legal opinions to the department and the public, regulations, circular letters, new releases, and copies of court decisions..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

94
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Adjudication
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
17373
 
 
Dates:
1990-2008, 2013
 
 
Abstract:  
The files in this series document administrative proceedings that Department of Health program units or the Bureau of Administrative Hearings are not able to settle without a hearing. Cases involve sanitary code conditions, Medicaid, professional medical conduct, nursing home discharges/transfers, emergency .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

95
Creator:
New York (State). Secretary of State
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
A0167
 
 
Dates:
1801-1848
 
 
Abstract:  
The series consists of severely burned and unidentified election records and/or Supreme Court records..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

96
Creator:
New York (State). Superintendent of Common Schools
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
B1928
 
 
Dates:
1842
 
 
Abstract:  
The judicial power to interpret school laws was vested in the Superintendent of Common Schools (later with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and beginning in 1904 with the Commissioner of Education). Any person can appeal the official actions of any local school official to the commissioner, .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

97
Creator:
New York (Colony). Court of Assizes
 
 
Abstract:  
This series consists of a typescript calendar of cases presented to the Court of Assizes, compiled sometime before 1911 by A. J. F. Van Laer, archivist of the New York State Library. Entries generally contain the date, parties to the case, nature of the case, allegations, court proceedings, disposition .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

98
Creator:
New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Adjudication
 
 
Abstract:  
This series serves as an index to Series 17373, Department of Health Adjudication Case Files. The index is in chronological order by year and therein alphabetical by case name. It provides the case name, document type, date signed or served, and document number..........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

99
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
J0002
 
 
Dates:
1797-1834
 
 
Abstract:  
The recognizance roll is a record of the undertaking of bail, made before a justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature. The roll contains the same information as is found in the plaintiff's declaration, followed by a statement of the obligation of the bail. The recognizance roll was the formal record .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

100
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
 
 
Title:  
 
Series:
J0003
 
 
Dates:
1807-1834
 
 
Abstract:  
The recognizance roll is a record of the undertaking of bail, made before a justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature. The roll contains the same information as is found in the plaintiff's declaration, followed by a statement of the obligation of the bail. The recognizance roll was the formal record .........
 
Repository:  
New York State Archives
 

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