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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
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, by which corporations were summoned to appear; and for the various
writs of execution issued subsequent to a final judgment (the writs of fieri facias, capias ad satisfaciendum, and habere
facias possessionem).
Creator:
Title:
Registers of returns of writs
Quantity:
0.8 cubic feet
6 volumes
Inclusive Dates:
1815-1847
Series Number:
J0226
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