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Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
These records contain testimony that was taken conditionally (de bene esse) from a material witness who was a transient or a non-resident or who was unable to testify at a trial because of illness. In such instances a party to an action applied for an order allowing a deposition to be taken. The affidavit .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
62
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series consists of obligations binding a plaintiff (in cases heard by the Supreme Court of Judicature) or an appellant (in appealed cases heard by the Supreme Court or the Court of Errors) and his surety for payment of costs and damages if the decision of the court goes against him. An appellant .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
63
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
These registers contain entries of writs issued by the court and returned by sheriffs. The returns are for writs of capias ad respondendum, by which defendants were arrested and held for appearance in court; writs of habeas corpus, by which defendants, witnesses, or other persons were arrested for the .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
64
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series consists of insolvency papers filed in Albany Supreme Court concerning the assignment and/or sale of debtor's property. Records include petitions of debtors and creditors requesting attachment or sale of property; creditor affidavits stating that they received no payment for petitioning .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
65
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
Insolvency papers include documents relating to the assignment and sale of property of insolvent debtors who petitioned for relief (voluntary assignment), or the attachment and sale of property of "absconding, concealed, or non-resident debtors" (involuntary assignment). Content of files varies depending .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
66
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series contains common rule books, which the clerks of the Supreme Court of Judicature were directed to keep. The books contain a record of common rules or orders of the court, entered by the clerk on motion made by an attorney for one of the parties to a cause. Each entry in the common rulebooks .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
67
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
68
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Utica)
Abstract:
This series consists of writs of commission, directed to commissioners appointed by the writ, to take depositions from material witnesses residing in other states or countries. The return to the writ consists of the answers of the witness to interrogatories, transcribed and certified by the commissi.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
69
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Title:
Series:
J0175
Dates:
1834-1847
Abstract:
This series consists mostly of orders of circuit judges granting or denying motions for new trials after hearing arguments on bills of exceptions. Also included are a few orders granting motions to take testimony from out of state material witnesses. Each order lists title of the cause, date and substance .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
70
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Title:
Series:
J0210
Dates:
1814-1858
Abstract:
This series consists of indexes to writs returned by sheriffs and other court officers to the clerks of the Supreme Court at New York City. Indexes to writs returned to the Supreme Court provide date of return, name of attorney, names of plaintiff and defendant, type of writ, and hour returned..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
71
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series contains abstracts of attorneys' accounts with the clerk of the Supreme Court at Albany. To the left of each attorney's name is a consecutive number referring to account books which are no longer extant. In columns are entered balances due from the attorneys and occasional entries of payments. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
72
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
73
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
74
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This account book contains a record of fees charged for filing declarations, judgments, satisfactions, motions, and other documents, and for performing searches of documents on file. Each entry gives the date of the fee, attorney's name, nature of fee charged, and amount of fee..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
75
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Title:
Series:
J0241
Dates:
1806-1847
Abstract:
This series consists of calendars of enumerated motions argued before the Supreme Court of Judicature in the general terms. These calendars list motions made to arrest judgment; those arising when a point or problem was referred to a justice for decision; those arising on a demurrer, on a bill of exceptions, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
76
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This volume contains accounts of fees charged by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Geneva. The entries were made daily, and each gives the date, name of attorney charged, nature of charge, and the amount charged. The fees are for impressing seals; copying dockets; searching and copying .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
77
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
78
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series consists of remittiturs from the Court for the Correction of Errors to the Supreme Court of Judicature, for execution of judgement or other proceedings. Records include the writ of error returnable to the Court of Errors; a copy of the judgement roll; occasionally a bill of exceptions, or .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
79
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
80
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
This series contains recognizance rolls, which are records of the undertaking of bail, made before a justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature. The roll contains the same information as is found in the plaintiff's declaration, followed by a statement of the obligation of the bail. The recognizance .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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