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Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
This index analyzes decisions of the Court of Appeals by legal topic and sub-topic (from "Accounting" to "Workmen's Compensation." The card index may have been compiled as a general subject index to Court of Appeals decisions. Most of the information in the index is not unique, being available in published .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
82
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
83
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
J2061
Dates:
1830-1847
Abstract:
This series consists of draft orders and decrees issued by the Vice Chancellor, copies of reports of fees collected by the court, lists of delinquent guardians, routine correspondence with the Chancellor and Register, appointment documents and oaths of office of court officials, and miscellaneous documents .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
84
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Title:
Series:
J2167
Dates:
1837-1847
Abstract:
This series contains common rules for interlocutory or final judgments when a defendant failed to enter a plea to the plaintiff's declaration and therefore was in default. The rules (or orders) were made on motion of the plaintiff's attorney. Most grant the plaintiff an interlocutory judgment and direct .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
85
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
These volumes are dockets of undertaking of bail. Each entry gives the names of defendant and plaintiff, names of the bail (sometimes with their residences and occupations or ranks), name of defendant's attorney, and date of filing. Usually one of the bail is a fictitious person, i.e., "John Doe" or .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
86
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of the written opinions and decisions of the Vice Chancellor of the 6th Circuit. Each opinion and decision contains a review of the particulars of the case, a summary of the arguments of the parties involved, the Vice Chancellor's decision on the matter, his reasons for so deciding, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
87
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Title:
Series:
J3076
Dates:
1830-1846
Abstract:
This series consists of reports listing court-appointed guardians, committees, and receivers who failed to file inventories and accounts with the court three months after the filing deadline. Entries include the title of the cause or matter (including the name(s) of the infant, idiot, lunatic, or habitual .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
88
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
This series consists of attorney admission affidavits filed with the State Court of Appeals. Each affidavit includes the following data: attorney name, residence, date of filing, date of admission, court where admitted, and whether the individual is native-born or a naturalized citizen (which sometimes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
89
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
These volumes are dockets of undertakings of bail. Each entry gives the names of defendant and plaintiff, names of the bail (sometimes with their residences and occupations or ranks), name of defendant's attorney, and date of filing. Usually one of the bail is a fictitious person, i.e., "John Doe" or .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
90
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of court calendars prepared by the Register for the Chancellor. Entries consist of a priority number (starting at "1"), the names of the complainant and defendant, the date the case was begun, the method by which the case reached the hearing stage (e.g., bill confessed, demurrer, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
91
Creator:
New York (State). State Board of Law Examiners
Title:
Series:
J5102
Dates:
1895-1922, 1945-1958
Abstract:
This series documents applicants for the New York State bar examination. Information provided includes number of application, name of applicant, residence, judicial department, date application received, college or university of graduation, year of graduation, law school attended, duration of attendance, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
92
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Abstract:
This series consists of receipts, bills, statements, reports, copies of orders, bank books, and correspondence originally filed with the Register relating to the internal fiscal operation and administration of the court. The series contains information on fees and other monies received by the court, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
93
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains oversized enrolled decrees in bound volumes and folders. Each decree was signed by the Vice-Chancellor in the 1st Circuit or by the Chancellor. One case was commenced in 1839 and finally determined by the Supreme Court in Equity (New York County) in 1893..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
94
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Title:
Series:
JN315
Dates:
1704-1847
Abstract:
The first sub-series contains filed documents in cases that generally did not result in an enrolled decree, the final determination in a Chancery case involving a complainant and defendant. The second sub-series, including corporation cases, includes some decrees or draft decrees, mostly in mortgage .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
95
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This collection contains writs of error filed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature in New York City. The writ required the judge of a trial court to return a transcript of a judgment and related proceedings to the Supreme Court for review and determination. The writ alleges that "manifest .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
96
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
97
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Geneva)
Abstract:
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 .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
98
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
The relicta et cognovit is the defendant's confession that he is liable for the debt or other damages alleged in the plaintiff's declaration, plus any costs and charges arising out of the action. The document gives the names of the parties and their attorneys and the amount of damages claimed. It is .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
99
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
The small number of documents in this series relate to a judgment by a town of Romulus justice of the peace in Seneca County. The judgment was removed to the Seneca County Court of Common Pleas by a writ of certiorari, and thence submitted without writ of error to the Supreme Court by stipulation of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
100
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of reports of referees who were appointed by rule of the court to report the amount of damages (if any) due to a plaintiff in an action which involved complex money accounts. Each report gives the title of the cause, the amount of damages awarded, the signatures of the three referees, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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