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Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of draft opinions written by the Chancellor for cases heard by the Court of Chancery and the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors. Each draft opinion gives the volume and page number in which it is entered; the names of the parties in the case; a review of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
22
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of notes of issue filed with the Register or Assistant Register of the Court of Chancery. The court rules required a solicitor to file a note of issue at least four days before the beginning of a court term or his case would not be scheduled for a hearing..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
23
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
24
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
25
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
26
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
27
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
28
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 Historical Documents Collection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
29
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title:
Series:
J3241
Dates:
1860-1879
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
30
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
31
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
32
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
33
Creator:
New York (State). Office of Court Administration
Title:
Series:
B2913
Dates:
1984-1991
Abstract:
This series contains files created and collected during the Judicial Records Disposition and Archives Development Project. Files include project guidelines and forms, interim reports and final report, meeting minutes, correspondence and memoranda, reports of court visits, records survey notes, summary .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
34
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains a brief daily record of actions taken in cases heard by the Chancellor of the State Court of Chancery. The date of the hearing, the names of the parties and their attorneys, and a statement of actions taken are recorded for each case..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
35
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of one volume of handwritten forms to be used as models for various types of orders, decrees, and writs issued by the Court of Chancery. A law of 1803 allowed the Court to determine and change the form of all orders, decrees, and process it issued. The elimination of or changes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
36
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
37
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
J0238
Dates:
1847
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
38
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals. Clerk's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of a photocopy of a handwritten notebook containing remarks about records of the Court of Chancery, Supreme Court of Judicature, and other early courts that were transferred to the Court of Appeals in 1847. Also in the notebook are notes and tipped-in newspaper clippings relating .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
This series contains original wills and documents relating to proof of the wills that were filed in the Utica office of the Supreme Court. Documents relating to proof include the petition for proof of will in Supreme Court; testimony or affidavits of witnesses attesting to the competency of the testator .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series contains documents relating to the proof of wills in the Supreme Court at Albany. Documents include the executor's petition for proof of the will in Supreme Court; affidavits of witnesses regarding competency of the testator; and notices to next-of-kin. Wills could be proved in the Supreme .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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