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121
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of an alphabetical listing of mortgages filed with the Register and serves as a partial index to Series J4061, New York State Court of Chancery Mortgages Filed in Register's Office. The rules of the court required the Master involved in a mortgage foreclosure case to file the mortgages .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
122
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of a short chronological record of actions taken and documents filed in petition cases heard by the Vice Chancellor of the 7th Circuit. Most cases concern matters of incompetency (lunatics, infants, and drunkards), the administration of estates, and petitions for special performance. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
123
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series is an outdated partial index to Enrolled Chancery Decrees After 1800. It was superseded by J0064, Index of Enrolled Decrees After 1800. File numbers, therefore, no longer refer to actual enrolled decrees since new file numbers were assigned in the subsequent index. Entries include complainant, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
124
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of draft decrees and orders used as entry documentation for the State Court of Chancery Common Order Book 1806-1830, Register's Minutes of Decrees 1830-1847, and Register's Minutes of Common Orders 1830-1847. Draft decrees appear in this series beginning in 1830. Occasionally a .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
125
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
The special bail piece is a memorandum filed with the court stating that the defendant has been delivered to bail. It gives the names of the defendant and plaintiff; name, occupation or rank, and residence of the bail (two persons are named, but generally one is fictitious--"John Doe" or "Richard Roe"); .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
126
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
This series consists of manuscript rough minutes compiled by the clerk of the original Court of Appeals during the period from July 1847 to June of 1870. Also included are rough minutes compiled by the clerk of the temporary Commission of Appeals during the period from July of 1870 to June of 1875. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
127
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series consists of the dockets of judgments filed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. Each entry in the docket books gives the following information: name of party against whom judgment has been obtained, amount of debt, amount of damages and costs, date judgment was .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
128
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of satisfaction pieces, which are an acknowledgment by a winning party that a judgment in his favor has been satisfied. The acknowledgment is signed by the winning party in a cause (or his attorney) and acknowledged before a judge or commissioner of deeds. The series includes a .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
129
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Title:
Series:
J0138
Dates:
1829-1847
Abstract:
This series consists of transcripts of judgments docketed by the clerk of the Supreme Court at Geneva. Information includes name of party against whom judgment has been obtained, name of party in whose favor judgment has been obtained, amount of debt, amount of damages and costs, date and hour of filing .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
130
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series contains documents pertaining to the surrender of a defendant and exoneration of his bail from liability for damages and costs awarded in a judgment. Bail might choose to render over their principal (i.e. the defendant) either before or after judgment, but it had to be done before return .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
131
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
This series contains documents pertaining to the surrender of a defendant and exoneration of his bail from liability for damages and costs awarded in a judgment. Bail might choose to render over their principal (i.e. the defendant) either before or after judgment, but it had to be done before return .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
132
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Title:
Series:
J0146
Dates:
1837-1847
Abstract:
This series contains records of the pleas, issue, trial, and verdict in civil causes in Circuit Courts. Records documenting civil causes provide name of court; term; names of plaintiff and defendant; names of the judge, attorneys, jurors, and witnesses; and the jury's verdict and its award of damages .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
133
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
These records contain testimony that was taken conditionally (de bene esse) from a material witness who was a transient or a non-resident or who was unable to testify at a trial because of illness. In such instances a party to an action applied for an order allowing a deposition to be taken. The affidavit .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
134
Creator:
New York (State). Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Title:
Series:
J0158
Dates:
1784-1847
Abstract:
This series indexes Series J0157, Records of Appeals and Cases in Error, by name of appellant and plaintiff in error. Each entry consists of a file number referring to records in the series indexed and the names of the appellant or plaintiff in error and respondent or defendant in error. The first few .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
135
Creator:
New York (State). Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Title:
Series:
J0159
Dates:
1788-1846
Abstract:
This series is the official daily record of court proceedings. Recorded in the minutes are the date and the names of court members in attendance for each court session and the location for each term. The parties' names and what occurred are recorded for each case heard in a session. The series contains .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
136
Creator:
New York (State). Commission of Appeals
Abstract:
This series contains New York State Court of Appeals calendars for the period 1860-1869 and New York State Commission of Appeals calendars for the period 1870-1873. The Temporary Commission of Appeals was established to assist in disposing of the backlog of cases that had built up in the Court of Appeals .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
137
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery (7th Circuit)
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of special orders issued by the Vice Chancellor in the 7th Circuit directing a Master to appoint a receiver for an insolvent debtor and directing the debtor to turn over all his property, account books, and papers to the receiver..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
138
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
J0206
Dates:
1843-1847
Abstract:
This series consists of common orders issued by the Clerk in the name of the Vice Chancellor in the 7th Circuit in mortgage cases, by which a Master was ordered to determine the amount of principal and interest owed to the complainant..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
139
Creator:
New York (State). Law Reporting Bureau
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
140
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
J0238
Dates:
1847
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
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