Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This volume contains entries of writs sealed by and issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York. Each entry gives the names of parties to the cause, the type of writ, the form of action under common law, and the name of the attorney to whom the writ was issued. Every type .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
A1863
Dates:
1857-1883
Abstract:
This series consists of documents constituting the whole proceedings for a case seeking repeal of a letters patent or dissolution of articles of incorporation. Information includes the cases' history, the defendant's defense, statements of facts, actions taken by, and the final judgment of the court. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Department of State
Title:
Series:
A1867
Dates:
1910-1911
Abstract:
This series consists of information on motorists convicted of violating Article 11 of the Highway Law, pertaining to driver licensing, motor vehicle registration, public highway use, and motor vehicle speed. Information includes the name, address, section of the highway law violated, sentence and location, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of common orders (orders to which a party was entitled without having to show special cause) issued by the Chancellor. Court rules required that common orders issued by the Chancellor be entered by the Register in separate books. This series continues Series J0045, New .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series consist of returns to writs of certiorari, mandamus and error, and bills of exceptions filed in Albany..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title:
Series:
J6000
Dates:
1847-1886, 1933
Abstract:
This series consists of a small quantity of examples of motion papers and related documents filed with the clerk of the Court of Appeals in the nineteenth century (predominantly). Documents include affidavits and notices of motion, affidavits of service, orders of substitution, orders of continuance .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This small collection includes administrative orders relating to the Chancery Fund and Chancery Library, and examples of other documents, including a bill of complaint (copy), bonds, two estate inventories, solicitor and counselor admission papers, and two remittiturs from the Court for the Correction .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of an index of enrolled decrees, including names of complainant defendant and complainant's solicitor, and date decree was enrolled. Occasionally an entry contains a remark about the nature or disposition of a case. Series also includes is a list of maps that relate to land disputes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title:
Series:
J3241
Dates:
1860-1879
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
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
16
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
17
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
18
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Title:
Series:
B1186
Dates:
1841-1869
Abstract:
Most of the documents in this series are associated with the Court of Chancery. Documents reference many different cases including one involving Philip Phelps and another involving the Commercial Bank of Albany. Other documents relay the names of employees of the Court of Appeals Clerk's Office and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
19
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of common orders (orders to which a party was entitled without having to show special cause) issued by the Chancellor. Court rules required that all orders issued by the Chancellor be entered by the Register in separate books. This series is continued by Series J0046, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of decrees and special orders issued by the Chancellor. The decrees include those appointing court officers, establishing court rules, and providing relief to petitioners and complainants. Information includes names of complainant, petitioner or applicant and defendant, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives