Scope and Content Note
This series consists of the Register's statement on mortgage foreclosure cases handled by the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor. The statements for the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are separate.
Each contains totals (for 1838 and 1839) of bills filed for mortgage foreclosure, decrees issued for sale of mortgaged premises, and sales actually conducted. These statistics are followed by alphabetical listings of cases for 1838 and 1839 respectively, each entry containing the names of the complainant and defendant, the costs allowed by the court and the amount of money awarded by the decree. The entries for cases in which a sale actually took place include the property's sale amount and the total costs in the case.
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