Finding Aid Search Results
1
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This volume contains entries of writs sealed by and issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York. Each entry gives the names of parties to the cause, the type of writ, the form of action under common law, and the name of the attorney to whom the writ was issued. Every type .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
A1863
Dates:
1857-1883
Abstract:
This series consists of documents constituting the whole proceedings for a case seeking repeal of a letters patent or dissolution of articles of incorporation. Information includes the cases' history, the defendant's defense, statements of facts, actions taken by, and the final judgment of the court. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series consists of executive orders signed by the governor and his private secretary designating extraordinary court terms and assigning judges to preside over these terms, or appointing a judge or justice to the court of appeals or the Supreme Court. Each certificate designating a court term specifies .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
A1867
Dates:
1910-1911
Abstract:
This series consists of information on motorists convicted of violating Article 11 of the Highway Law, pertaining to driver licensing, motor vehicle registration, public highway use, and motor vehicle speed. Information includes the name, address, section of the highway law violated, sentence and location, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series includes dockets or outlines of actions taken in selected cases heard before Albany courts, and a few heard before Supreme Court in other counties. Information includes court name and location, and the name of the parties involved in the case. Kingsley and Bentley are identified as attorneys .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
B0061
Dates:
1848-1924, 1960-1979
Abstract:
This series consists of filings by supreme court justices for each judicial district designating court terms and assigning judges. Also included are changes in the date of a court session, a presiding judge, or the extension of a court term or appointment of an extraordinary term. Information includes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of common orders (orders to which a party was entitled without having to show special cause) issued by the Chancellor. Court rules required that common orders issued by the Chancellor be entered by the Register in separate books. This series continues Series J0045, New .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series consist of returns to writs of certiorari, mandamus and error, and bills of exceptions filed in Albany..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Historical Documents Collection
Title:
Series:
J2065
Dates:
1684-1800, 1824
Abstract:
This series consists of indexes containing names of plaintiffs and defendants in Chancery cases that have case documents in Series J0065, Enrolled Decrees, Filed Parchments and Papers Before 1800. Each index entry includes the names of the litigants, one or more alphanumeric document file codes, and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title:
Series:
J3241
Dates:
1860-1879
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title:
Series:
J6000
Dates:
1847-1886, 1933
Abstract:
This series consists of a small quantity of examples of motion papers and related documents filed with the clerk of the Court of Appeals in the nineteenth century (predominantly). Documents include affidavits and notices of motion, affidavits of service, orders of substitution, orders of continuance .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
JN324
Dates:
1702, 1757, 1767, 1772-1775, 1779, 1787, 1792-1848
Abstract:
This series contains interrogatories, cross-interrogatories, and depositions of witnesses in proceedings in the Court of Chancery, the Court of Equity (1st Circuit), and the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit). Almost all the depositions were taken by an Examiner in Chancery; a few were taken by court-appointed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This small collection includes administrative orders relating to the Chancery Fund and Chancery Library, and examples of other documents, including a bill of complaint (copy), bonds, two estate inventories, solicitor and counselor admission papers, and two remittiturs from the Court for the Correction .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series contains writs of error and related documents; writs of habeas corpus; and a single writ of certiorari. All of the writs of error were directed to the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York. Several of the writs of habeas corpus concerned custody of minors. Two writs of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This small series contains one example each of a writ of covenant, writ of habere facias possessionem, and writ of proclamation. There is also a folder of unidentified writs..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
18
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Abstract:
This series consists of Supreme Court subpoenas ordering the Secretary of State to produce records from his office and summonses served on his staff. Documents identify the case name, location, and type of court session. The subpoenas identify records requested and specify the time and place the records .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
19
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Probates
Title:
Series:
J0036
Dates:
[circa 1783]
Abstract:
This series consists of one volume, containing an inventory of the records of the provincial (colonial) Prerogative Court transferred from the Secretary of State to the Court of Probates. The inventory is divided into five sections: wills probated before the Revolution in 1776; wills probated behind .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of an index of enrolled decrees, including names of complainant defendant and complainant's solicitor, and date decree was enrolled. Occasionally an entry contains a remark about the nature or disposition of a case. Series also includes is a list of maps that relate to land disputes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives