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1
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
J3011
Dates:
1823-1828
Abstract:
This fragmentary series consists of summaries of testimony and proceedings in the Circuit Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer. At the head of each document are the names of the courts, the venue, the date, and the names of the presiding justices. Following are entries for each case (civil or criminal) .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
2
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of mandamus, issued under seal of the Supreme Court of Judicature, commanding a public officer or public corporation to show cause why he or it should not perform a duty (alternative mandamus), or to perform it (peremptory mandamus). Most writs served on courts of common .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
3
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists of transcripts of dockets of judgments in the U.S. Circuit Court and District Courts for the Southern District of New York. The transcripts vary in format, but all entries give the names of the losing and winning parties, the amount of judgment and costs, the date of docketing judgment, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
4
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
JN503
Dates:
1830-1850
Abstract:
An insolvent debtor could with consent of creditors assign his property to an assignee (trustee), who sold it to pay the creditors. The assignment consists of two parts: first, a summary of the insolvent debtor's petition for relief, the notice to creditors of the pending assignment, and the judge's .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
5
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
JN519
Dates:
1684-1848
Abstract:
Most of the documents in this series are Supreme Court judgment rolls, issue rolls, and nisi prius rolls on parchment. Other civil case documents include recognizances, writs of capias, writs of venire, and other writs. Criminal case documents (all pre-dating 1776) include indictments, informations, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
6
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
JN526
Dates:
1790-1847
Abstract:
Transcripts of dockets of judgments were filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature in New York City by the other clerks of the court. Transcripts for the Albany office start 1790; Utica, 1807; Canandaigua (later Geneva), 1829. Each entry includes the name of the party against .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
7
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
JN530
Dates:
1768, 1795, 1797, 1799–1801, 1811, 1813, 1825, 1834, 1837–1839, 1844, 1847
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
8
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
9
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists mostly of writs of capias ad respondendum ordering a sheriff to arrest a defendant for appearance in court. Other writs ordering a sheriff to take action also appear..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
B0318
Dates:
1788-1794
Abstract:
This series consists of warrants related to circuit courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Queens County. The warrants command the sheriff to summon freeholders to jury duty; to deliver prisoners to jail; and to notify various officers to appear at court. These documents were burned in the 1911 fire .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
11
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
J0007
Dates:
1797-1836
Abstract:
The volumes in this series are clerks' registers of writs issued and returned, declarations and other documents received and filed, and other business transacted in the Supreme Court of Judicature and in the Courts of Common Pleas in some of the counties of upstate New York. Each case is identified .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
12
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists of bills of exceptions, which were submitted by attorneys for defendants in inferior courts (civil or criminal) who intended to apply for a writ of error. The bill summarizes the proceedings to which exception is taken and is certified and signed by the judge (or judges) of the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
13
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
J0124
Dates:
1811
Abstract:
This series consists of three documents, all relating to a writ of certiorari (not included) issued from the Supreme Court of Judicature to an unspecified court in Ulster County. These documents include a letter from John Sudam of Kingston requesting that the Supreme Court of Judicature hear an argument .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
14
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series is an index to losing parties in judgments awarded by the Supreme Court of Judicature. Following the date are the letters 'U', 'G', or 'N', standing for judgments filed at Utica, Geneva, and New York, respectively. If there is no letter, the judgment roll was filed at Albany..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
15
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
A writ of certiorari was obtained by a defendant to remove a case from a lower court into the Supreme Court of Judicature for trial and judgement, or for review after judgment in the lower court. These records include affidavits by which writs of certiorari were applied for; writs, which were Supreme .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
16
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists of original writs which ordered a sheriff to summon or attach a defendant to appear in court. In the early nineteenth century, the original writ was used primarily in actions where the defendant was a fictitious person, i.e. a corporation, which could not be arrested on a writ of .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
17
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
J0222
Dates:
1830-1836
Abstract:
This volume contains entries of judgments against parties to actions in the U.S. District and Circuit Courts in New York State. Each entry gives names of judgment debtor and creditor; how the judgment was obtained; amounts of debt, damages, and costs; time of filing and docketing judgment; name of filing .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
18
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
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, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
19
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Abstract:
This series consists of a variety of documents from the Supreme Courts of Judicature at Albany, Geneva, and Utica. Included are motions; briefs; pleadings; writs of venire; returns of writs of error, certiorari, and commission; appointments of guardians; conditional testimony; cognovits; draft rules; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
20
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Title:
Series:
J1002
Dates:
1838-186
Abstract:
This series consists mostly of writs of fieri facias (executions) issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature and returned to the Court of Appeals. Also include are satisfaction pieces; orders to transfer Chancery case papers to the Supreme Court clerk in a particular county, a few orders and miscellaneous .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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