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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of affidavits of defendants' bail. Each affidavit states that the bail is worth a specified sum of money after payment of the defendant's outstanding debts (the amount was required to be double the amount of debt or damages claimed by the plaintiff in the writ of capias ad respo.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
62
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of possession (habere facias possessionem), issued under seal of the Supreme Court of Judicature, commanding a sheriff to give possession of a parcel of land to the person who was entitled to it after having won an action of ejectment in the Supreme Court of Judicature..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
63
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Title:
Series:
J6011
Dates:
1820
Abstract:
This series consists of sworn affidavits by Revolutionary War veterans intending to apply for pensions. Each affidavit includes statements of the veteran's war service; a schedule of his real and personal property; applicant's age; residence; former military rank; and physical disability (if any). Such .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
64
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series consists of motions and orders for commissions to be issued for taking of testimony from material witnesses residing out of state. The motion itself consists of a notice to the attorney for the plaintiff (or defendant) stating that application will be made for a commission and giving the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
65
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of attachment, issued under seal of the Supreme Court of Judicature, ordering a sheriff or coroner to attach a person disobeying a court rule and to make him appear to answer for his contempt. Persons subject to attachment included judges, court clerks, attorneys, sheriffs, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
66
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
67
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN505
Dates:
1832-1837, 1839-1847
Abstract:
Volumes contain entries indicating that the plaintiff's declaration (initial plea) was personally served on the defendant, whose appearance (submission to the court's jurisdiction) was entered by the court clerk on motion of plaintiff's attorney. Each entry contains the date, title of the case, and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
68
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN507
Dates:
1795-1798
Abstract:
Book contains entries by the court clerk of charges to attorneys for each document issued or filed. Amounts are computed in pounds, shillings, and pence. All accounts end with the word "copied," apparently referring to a successor book that does not survive..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
69
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN508
Dates:
1748-1823
Abstract:
These special bail pieces were filed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. The bail piece states the names of the parties and the surety for satisfaction of the judgment if the plaintiff prevailed..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
70
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
71
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series contains precipes generated by the New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (New York). Precipes are brief instructions by an attorney to the court clerk to seal a writ or enter a common rule. The precipes list parties to the action and the attorney's name and date..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
72
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
Collection contains writs of arrest and a small number of other writs, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Over ninety percent of the documents are writs of capias ad respondendum, ordering a sheriff to arrest a civil defendant, thereby bringing him into the court's custody to answer the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
73
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
JN545
Dates:
1772-1776, 1790-1799 (with gaps)
Abstract:
Registers contain lists of writs sealed and issued by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York City. Each entry in a register includes the date of issuance, names of plaintiff and defendant, and type of writ. County is mentioned if a writ was directed to a sheriff outside of New York .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
74
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This small series consists of writs of certiorari. Writs were directed to the Court of Common Pleas (Mayor's Court) in New York City and County and in several other counties in eastern New York. Most of the writs have attached to them the return of proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
75
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series contains writs of commission, court orders to obtain written testimony for a proceeding in the Supreme Court of Judicature. The writ appointed commissioners to depose a witness residing out of state or out of country. Accompanying the writ are interrogatories (questions to the witness) and, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
76
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
77
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
Writs of procedendo are orders from the Supreme Court of Judicature directing the sheriff of New York City and County to deliver a defendant in a proceeding before the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York (known as the Mayor's Court) into the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
78
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of scire facias. These writs were issued by the Supreme Court of Judicature to compel a judgment debtor or his heirs to satisfy the judgment against him..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
79
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Title:
Series:
JN601
Dates:
1813-1821
Abstract:
This volume contains bills of costs in civil court proceedings taxed (approved) by a judge or court clerk. Each entry includes the name of court, title of case, itemized costs of the proceeding (whether it went to trial or not) allowed by statute, total costs, name of the defendant's attorney, and signature .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
80
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
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