Finding Aid Search Results
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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
2
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
3
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains engrossed copies of the minutes contained in Chancery Minutes providing a daily record of the proceedings of the Court of Chancery. The names of the parties and their attorneys, summaries of arguments and documents read or submitted, and actions taken by the court are recorded. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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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
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Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
Abstract:
These volumes index enrolled decrees and transcribed enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit) filed by the court clerk. The indexes include adversarial cases, commenced by complaint, but not non-adversarial cases commenced by petition. The three volumes index the Vice-Chancellor's enrolled .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office. Division of Old Records
Title:
Series:
JN109
Dates:
1684-1895
Abstract:
This series is an electronic index of selected data from Series JN103, Card Index to Court of Chancery Enrolled Decrees and Filed Papers and Series JN120, Card Index to Supreme Court and Court of Chancery Documents on Parchment. This spreadsheet serves as an index for documents of the Supreme Court .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany, Utica, and Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of transcripts of decrees docketed by the Court of Chancery and its circuits. Each entry gives the name of the person against whom the decree was rendered; residence; amount of debt, damages, costs, or other sums decreed; date and hour of the docketing decree; names of the parties .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN535
Dates:
1838-1847
Abstract:
Series contains documents relating to litigation in the Supreme Court of Judicature, filed by the court clerk in New York City, and in that court's successor the Supreme Court (New York County), filed by the New York County Clerk. Most of the documents are pleadings by plaintiffs and defendants. There .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
Creator:
Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York
Title:
Series:
JN111
Dates:
1844-1855
Abstract:
This series consists of printed volumes containing summary information on money judgments in the superior civil courts in New York County and City, and occasionally other courts in New York City and State..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court (New York County)
Title:
Series:
JN504
Dates:
1799-1859
Abstract:
Most documents in this series are certificates of clerkships of applicants for admission as attorney or counsellor in the Supreme Court of Judicature and (after July 1, 1847) the Supreme Court. Other documents include reports of examiners of candidates for admission; copies of orders admitting attorneys .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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