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Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
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
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of docket books recording final decrees issued by the Vice Chancellor at the request of any party involved in a case. The New York Revised Statutes of 1829 required the Clerks of various Chancery Circuits to maintain such a record and dictated its format. Information recorded includes .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Appeals
Abstract:
This series consists of bound minute books compiled by the clerk of the Court of Appeals commencing after the court was reconstituted under the Judiciary Article of 1869. Daily entries include name of chief judge presiding, list of motions, list of cases argued before the court, decisions and orders .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains copies of decrees issued by the Vice Chancellors of the 4th, 7th, and 8th Circuits authorizing the sale of land in mortgage foreclosure cases. Each decree contains the following information: date and location of the hearing during which the decree was issued; names of the complainant, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series consists of a short chronological record of actions taken and documents filed in petition cases heard by the Vice Chancellor of the 7th Circuit. Most cases concern matters of incompetency (lunatics, infants, and drunkards), the administration of estates, and petitions for special performance. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series is a listing of information on cases in which a guardian, committee, or receiver was appointed by the Vice Chancellor in the Third Circuit..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
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
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Abstract:
This series contains a brief daily record of actions taken in cases heard by the Vice Chancellors of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th Circuits. Information includes hearing date, names of the parties and often their solicitors, and a statement of actions. The statement varies in content and detail depending .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Abstract:
This series consists of semi-annual reports on monies paid to the Clerk that were still in the custody of the court at the end of the reporting period. Each entry in the report was required to contain the title of the cause in or an account for which money was paid, the date the money was paid, for .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
The relicta et cognovit is the defendant's confession that he is liable for the debt or other damages alleged in the plaintiff's declaration, plus any costs and charges arising out of the action. The document gives the names of the parties and their attorneys and the amount of damages claimed. It is .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Commission of Appeals
Abstract:
This series consists of minute books compiled by the clerk of the Commission of Appeals..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
Commissioners of Records for the City and County of New York
Series:
JN111
Dates:
1844-1855
Abstract:
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
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Abstract:
This series contains documents pertaining to the surrender of a defendant and exoneration of his bail from liability for damages and costs awarded in a judgment. Bail might choose to render over their principal (i.e. the defendant) either before or after judgment, but it had to be done before return .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Abstract:
This series contains documents pertaining to the surrender of a defendant and exoneration of his bail from liability for damages and costs awarded in a judgment. Bail might choose to render over their principal (i.e. the defendant) either before or after judgment, but it had to be done before return .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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
Creator:
New York (State). Court of Chancery
Series:
J0206
Dates:
1843-1847
Abstract:
This series consists of common orders issued by the Clerk in the name of the Vice Chancellor in the 7th Circuit in mortgage cases, by which a Master was ordered to determine the amount of principal and interest owed to the complainant..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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
Creator:
New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
Abstract:
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). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Abstract:
The rules in this series were entered on motion by the plaintiff's attorney. Defendants not required to file special bail endorsed the writ, whereupon the court rule entered the defendant's (fictitious) appearance. Other rules direct the sheriff to re-arrest a defendant who had not put in special bail .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Historical Documents Collection
Series:
J2065
Dates:
1684-1800, 1824
Abstract:
This series consists of indexes containing names of plaintiffs and defendants in Chancery cases that have case documents in Series J0065, Enrolled Decrees, Filed Parchments and Papers Before 1800. Each index entry includes the names of the litigants, one or more alphanumeric document file codes, and .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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