Finding Aid Search Results
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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
2
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
3
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
4
Creator:
Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York
Title:
Series:
JN108
Dates:
1770-1910
Abstract:
Series consists of indexes to case files for enrolled decrees and other final orders of the Court of Chancery and Court of Vice Chancery (First Circuit), approximately 1770-1847; and indexes to case files for judgments in equity and other special proceedings in Supreme Court (New York City and County), .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
JN317
Dates:
1823-1832
Abstract:
Volume records court-ordered payments of cash and transfer of other financial assets by parties in Chancery proceedings, and their deposit with the Manhattan Company, a bank in New York City. Volume also contains signed receipts for money disbursed by the Manhattan Company and paid by the clerk of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of fieri facias, ordering a sheriff to sell a defendant's property in order to pay money owed to a complainant; writs of attachment, ordering a sheriff to arrest a defendant who was in contempt of court; and related documents..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York
Title:
Series:
JN394
Dates:
1702, 1757, 1767, 1772-1775, 1779, 1787, 1792-1848
Abstract:
Cards index most files in Series JN324, Depositions and Exhibits in Chancery Cases. Each card states the names of complainant and defendant, name of court (Chancery), "nature of paper" (interrogatories, deposition, etc.), and document file code..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of an index of names of parties in court cases and reference page numbers of unspecified volumes. Records cited in the indexes are unknown..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
Abstract:
This series is an index of remittiturs from the New York State Court of Appeals. Register lists cases that were ultimately appealed to the Court of Appeals and returned to the Supreme Court (New York County) for execution of judgment..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
United States. District Court (New York : Southern District)
Title:
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York transcript of docket of judgments
Series:
JN597
Dates:
1829-1839
Abstract:
This volume is a transcript of the docket of money judgments rendered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and docketed by the court clerk, whose office was located in New York City..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
New York (State). Circuit Court (1st Circuit)
Title:
Series:
JN598
Dates:
1784-1786, 1801-1820, 1842
Abstract:
The rough minute books contain minutes of civil trials and other proceedings in regular terms of the Circuit Court and in additional "sittings" in the city and county of New York. Trial minutes include the names of plaintiff and defendant, attorneys, jurors, and witnesses, and may list documents introduced .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of scire facias. These writs were issued by the Supreme Court of Judicature to compel a judgment debtor or his heirs to satisfy the judgment against him..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
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
14
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office. Division of Old Records
Title:
Series:
JN103
Dates:
1701-1899
Abstract:
This card index provides access to documents filed or recorded in New York City by the Register and Assistant Register of the Court of Chancery, Clerk of the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit), and Clerk of the Supreme Court in Equity (New York County). Most of the indexed documents are enrolled or transcribed .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
Title:
Series:
JN114
Dates:
1754–1864
Abstract:
Two volumes are a docket of insolvent assignments filed in the offices of the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature (prior to July 1, 1847) and the clerk of the City and County of New York (starting July 1, 1847). Each docket entry includes the year, or year and date, of the assignment; the name .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This register lists bonds filed with the Court of Chancery by guardians and other agents of the court. Register also contains a list of title deeds filed by order of the Court of Chancery, 1760-1804..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (Colony). Prerogative Court
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
18
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
19
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
JN319
Dates:
1712-1748, 1770-1776, 1785-1847
Abstract:
The minute books in this series are a chronological record of proceedings in the Court of Chancery, including cases initiated by complaint or by petition. The minutes contain summaries or full texts of motions, preliminary and final orders, and final decrees, as well as entries for other actions by .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
JN503
Dates:
1830-1850
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
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