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81
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office. Division of Old Records
Title:
Series:
JN199
Dates:
1783-1953
Abstract:
This series is an electronic index (Law Judgments Index) containing selected data from series JN117, Card Index to Supreme Court Judgment Rolls. This spreadsheet serves as an index to series JN529, Supreme Court of Judicature Judgment Rolls and for post-1847 Supreme Court judgment rolls and other filed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
82
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains original enrolled decrees that were transcribed into the bound volumes that comprise Series JN306, Transcriptions of Enrolled Decrees into Libers. The enrolled decree was the final determination in an equity case involving a complainant and defendant..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
83
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series constitutes a full record of the judicial proceedings in such equity matters as foreclosure (the majority of cases), divorce, marital separation, dower rights, partitions of real property, injunctions against the performance of certain acts, and the settlement of legacies. Typical documents .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
84
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
Series contains oversized parchment rolls that were filed in twenty-one Chancery cases. Document types include bill of complaint, answer, replication, Master's report, return of inquest, order, and decree. There are no complete case files..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
85
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN535
Dates:
1838-1847
Abstract:
Series contains documents relating to litigation in the Supreme Court of Judicature, filed by the court clerk in New York City, and in that court's successor the Supreme Court (New York County), filed by the New York County Clerk. Most of the documents are pleadings by plaintiffs and defendants. There .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
86
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
Title:
Series:
JN537
Dates:
1823-1829
Abstract:
This volume contains attorneys' receipts for monies paid by judgment debtors to the sheriff of the city and county of New York in full or partial satisfaction of money judgments. Each entry contains the name of the court, title of the case, amount of payment, name of prevailing party's attorney, and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
87
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
The register that comprises this series contains entries of filings of performance bonds by receivers and committees..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
88
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
Writs of procedendo are orders from the Supreme Court of Judicature directing the sheriff of New York City and County to deliver a defendant in a proceeding before the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York (known as the Mayor's Court) into the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
89
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
Title:
Series:
JN395
Dates:
1763-1885
Abstract:
This volume partially indexes transcriptions of enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery and Court of Chancery (1st Circuit) filed in New York City. Also indexed are a small number of judgments of the Supreme Court in Equity (New York County) after July 1, 1847, when the Court of Chancery was aboli.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
90
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
Calendars contain lists of cases and brief notes of proceedings before the Vice-Chancellor or Assistant Vice-Chancellor in the First Circuit (New York City). Some entries include lists of papers read or submitted. Calendars include both adversarial cases, commenced by bill of complaint, and non-adversarial .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
91
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court (New York County)
Title:
Series:
JN504
Dates:
1799-1859
Abstract:
Most documents in this series are certificates of clerkships of applicants for admission as attorney or counsellor in the Supreme Court of Judicature and (after July 1, 1847) the Supreme Court. Other documents include reports of examiners of candidates for admission; copies of orders admitting attorneys .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
92
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
Title:
Series:
JN509
Dates:
1771-1861
Abstract:
Seven registers contain summary information about bonds filed in the New York County Clerk's Office, by parties to cases in the Supreme Court of Judicature, prior to July 1, 1847, and after that date in the Supreme Court (New York County). Entries in the earlier registers include the date of filing, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
93
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
Abstract:
This volume contains accounts of court costs in circuit courts held in New York County and in other counties in eastern and southern New York. Each entry contains the name of the plaintiff's attorney, title of case, itemized court costs relating to trial or other proceeding in circuit court, and total .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
94
Creator:
New York (State). Recorder's Court (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN512
Dates:
1796-1845
Abstract:
This volume contains accounts of fines (money penalties) in the Circuit Court and additional "sittings" of that court, and in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in the city and county of New York. Fines were imposed on jurors and constables who failed to appear as summoned, and on persons who were .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
95
Creator:
New York (State). Circuit Court (1st Circuit)
Abstract:
This series includes trial calendars, rough minutes of trials and inquests, pleadings, and other documents relating to civil cases commenced in the Supreme Court of Judicature and noticed for trial in the Circuit Court for New York City and County (1st Circuit)..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
96
Creator:
Rockland (N.Y. : County)
Title:
Series:
A4626
Dates:
1798-1994
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
97
Creator:
Herkimer (N.Y. : County)
Title:
Series:
A4634
Dates:
1847-1871
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
98
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of summary chronological records of actions taken and documents filed in cases heard by the Vice-Chancellors. Cases include both adversarial cases commenced by complaint ("causes"), and those commenced by petition ("matters")..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Title:
Series:
B1712
Dates:
1999
Abstract:
This series consists of opinion reports and appendices prepared for court cases involving Indian land claims filed against New York State by the Cayuga Indian Nation, the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, the Seneca Nation of Indians, and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians. Reports were authored by .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
100
Creator:
Washington (N.Y. : County)
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
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