New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva) Common Rule Books for Judgments on Default

Chronological by span of years, then alphabetical by first letter of plaintiff's attorney's name, then chronological by date, then by type of rule.

The volumes in this series contain common rules for interlocutory or final judgments when a defendant failed to enter a plea to the plaintiff's declaration and therefore was in default.

The rules (or orders) were made on motion of the plaintiff's attorney. Most of them grant the plaintiff an interlocutory judgment and direct a county clerk to assess and report the damages due him. The same rule or a separate one gives final judgment to the plaintiff upon receiving a report of the judgment award from the clerk. Occasionally a common rule directs a sheriff or coroner to return a writ of inquiry with an inquisition into the amount of damages or debt due the plaintiff. In many other instances the rule simply grants the plaintiff a final judgment for the amount claimed in his declaration on default of the defendant. In actions of ejectment the judgment award is possession of the premises in dispute. Each entry in these books gives the title of the cause, the rule granting the plaintiff interlocutory or final judgment, the amount of award, if determined, and the name of the plaintiff's attorney.

J0006Series J0006, New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva) Reports of Referees

J0027Series J0027, New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany, Utica, and Geneva) Writs of Inquiry and Inquisitions and

J0167Series J0167, New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva) Common Rule Books contain related records

J0138Series J0138, Transcripts of Judgment Dockets (Geneva), indexes losing parties

The Court of Appeals placed these records on deposit at the Historic Documents Collection, Queens College, from 1973-1982.

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