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The series includes Supreme Court and County Court case files, motion papers, lis pendens (a public record of pending law suits that may affect title to real property), and "grand jury affidavits." Some case files and associated judgments and orders are permanent; others are not. The district attorney's records ("grand jury affidavits") date from the period ca. 1887-1911. Documents consist of complaints, depositions, records on appeal, and newspaper clippings on criminal cases. The microfilm does not include a case index.
Most of the microfilmed records are case files of civil actions and special proceedings in Supreme Court, and criminal proceedings in County Court. There are also five rolls of microfilmed district attorney's records, including complaints, depositions, records on appeal, and newspaper clippings.
Records include judgments and orders; referee's reports; lis pendens; summons and complaints; grand jury affidavits; supreme court affidavits and motions; supreme court proceedings and notes of issue; county court petitions and orders; county court rolls; supreme court rolls; and jacket updates.
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