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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Geneva)

 

 

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This series consists of fragments from other series originally filed in the Albany, Geneva, and perhaps Utica offices of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Most of the documents are motions, cognovits, writs of execution (usually fi. fa.), briefs, and affidavits of service of declarations. There are also .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

 

 

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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 .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

 

 

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These registers contain entries of writs issued by the court and returned by sheriffs. The returns are for writs of capias ad respondendum, by which defendants were arrested and held for appearance in court; writs of habeas corpus, by which defendants, witnesses, or other persons were arrested for the .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature

 

 

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This fragmentary series consists of registers of returns of writs issued by the court and returned by sheriffs to circuit courts in various upstate counties. The returns are for writs of capias ad respondendum, by which defendants were arrested and held for appearance in court; for writs of summons, .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

 

 

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This series consists of writs of scire facias, which are orders under seal of the Supreme Court of Judicature commanding a sheriff to summon a defendant (or his heirs or assigns) to appear in court and show cause why execution of a judgment against him should not be levied from his property. The writ .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

 

 

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These registers contain entries of returns of writs of execution by sheriffs in counties served by the Albany office of the Supreme Court. The returns are mostly writs of fieri facias (fi. fa.) and capias ad satisfaciendum (ca. sa.), but there are a few for writs of habere facere possessionem and scire .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

 

 

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This series contains issue rolls, which contain all the same parts and information as judgment rolls up to and including the award of writ of venire facias juratores. (See finding aids for Series J0134, J0137, and J0140.) The issue roll was prepared only for important cases tried at the bar of the Supreme .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)

 

 

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This series consists of indexes to writs returned by sheriffs and other court officers to the clerks of the Supreme Court at New York City. Indexes to writs returned to the Supreme Court provide date of return, name of attorney, names of plaintiff and defendant, type of writ, and hour returned..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

 

 

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This volume contains minutes of the return of writs by sheriffs (or by coroners, in cases of attachments against sheriffs), with notes of motions and orders for proper execution of writs which had been returned only partially executed. The most frequent entries are for writs of capias ad respondendum .........

 

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New York State Archives