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New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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Volumes index those decrees in the Court of Chancery and the Chancery Circuits throughout the state that were docketed in the office of the Assistant Register in New York City, if the decree required a money payment by the losing party..........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office. Division of Old Records

 

 

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This card index provides access to documents filed or recorded in New York City by the Register and Assistant Register of the Court of Chancery, Clerk of the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit), and Clerk of the Supreme Court in Equity (New York County). Most of the indexed documents are enrolled or transcribed .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

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New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

 

 

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Card index documents judgments of the Supreme Court of Judicature filed in the court clerk's office in New York City between 1781 and June 30, 1847, and of the Supreme Court (New York County) filed in the New York County Clerk's Office from July 1, 1847 to the end of 1910. Judgment rolls filed prior .........

 

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New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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Calendars contain lists of cases and brief notes of proceedings before the Vice-Chancellor or Assistant Vice-Chancellor in the First Circuit (New York City). Some entries include lists of papers read or submitted. Calendars include both adversarial cases, commenced by bill of complaint, and non-adversarial .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York

 

 

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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

 

 

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New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

 

 

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Common rule books contain a record of common rules (or orders) entered by the clerk upon motion by the attorney for the plaintiff or defendant. Rules prior to July 1, 1847, were entered by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature in New York City. Starting July 1, 1847, rules were entered by the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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These volumes contain a chronological record of proceedings before the Vice-Chancellor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor in the Court of Chancery, 1st Circuit, in New York City. The rough minutes contain brief notes of proceedings, such as filing of papers and issuance of preliminary orders and a final .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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This series constitutes a full record of the judicial proceedings in such equity matters as foreclosure (the majority of cases), divorce, marital separation, dower rights, partitions of real property, injunctions against the performance of certain acts, and the settlement of legacies. Typical documents .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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The first sub-series contains filed documents in cases that generally did not result in an enrolled decree, the final determination in a Chancery case involving a complainant and defendant. The second sub-series, including corporation cases, includes some decrees or draft decrees, mostly in mortgage .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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This register lists bonds filed with the Court of Chancery by guardians and other agents of the court. Register also contains a list of title deeds filed by order of the Court of Chancery, 1760-1804..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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The registers in this series contain summary chronological records of proceedings in the Court of Chancery (before spring 1823), in the Court of Equity (1st Circuit) (spring 1823 through 1829), and before the Vice-Chancellor (1st Circuit) (1830-1847), in cases ("causes") involving a complainant and .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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This series contains transcriptions of enrolled decrees, the final determinations in equity cases involving a complainant and defendant. The decrees were issued by the Chancellor, the Circuit Judge in the 1st Circuit (1823-1829), the Vice-Chancellor in the 1st Circuit (1830-1847), or (after July 1, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Chancery

 

 

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This series contains original enrolled decrees that were transcribed into the bound volumes that comprise Series JN306, Transcriptions of Enrolled Decrees into Libers. The enrolled decree was the final determination in an equity case involving a complainant and defendant..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (Colony). Prerogative Court

 

 

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Volumes in this series index the enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery that were filed with the Chancery clerks in New York City. The volumes do not index decrees filed in Albany, or decrees of the Vice Chancellors in the eight Chancery Circuits. The four volumes contain essentially the same data, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York

 

 

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Printed volumes list notices of pending suits in equity filed in the New York County Clerk's Office. Each entry includes name of defendant, name of complainant, and date of notice. Courts with equity jurisdiction were the Court of Equity (1823-1829), Court of Chancery (1st Circuit) (1830-1847), and .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

 

 

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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

 

 

Creator:

New York (Colony). Circuit Court

 

 

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This transcription contains minutes of jury trials and related proceedings in Circuit Court in each county outside of New York City and County. Most cases concerned complex real property disputes. At the end of the transcription is a "Catalogue of Books," a list of short titles of published English .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (Colony). Court of Oyer and Terminer

 

 

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Minute books contain a record of proceedings in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in each county outside of New York City and County. Minutes for each court session include a list of grand jurors, entries of indictments returned and defendants arraigned, and minutes of trials and sentences..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York (Colony). Prerogative Court

 

 

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Two volumes are a docket of insolvent assignments filed in the offices of the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature (prior to July 1, 1847) and the clerk of the City and County of New York (starting July 1, 1847). Each docket entry includes the year, or year and date, of the assignment; the name .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

Creator:

New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

 

 

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This volume contains accounts of court costs in circuit courts held in New York County and in other counties in eastern and southern New York. Each entry contains the name of the plaintiff's attorney, title of case, itemized court costs relating to trial or other proceeding in circuit court, and total .........

 

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New York State Archives