New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (New York) Writs of Capias ad Respondendum and Other Sheriff's Writs

Chronological by year, then in some cases alphabetical by initial letter of filing attorney's surname.

JN543-17: Collection contains writs of arrest and a small number of other writs, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Over ninety percent of the documents are writs of capias ad respondendum, ordering a sheriff to arrest a civil defendant, thereby bringing him into the court's custody to answer the plaintiff's declaration of claim. Also present are writs of fieri facias and writs of capias ad satisfaciendum, ordering a sheriff to execute a civil judgment, and other writs for special purposes. At the end of the series are a few writs issued by the Court of Chancery, 1810-1813.

JN543-19: This accretion contains mostly writs of capias ad respondendum and capias ad satisfaciendum. Several other types of writs are also present.

These records were transferred by the New York State Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration in 2017 and 2019.

This collection of writs was assembled from several locations in the New York County Clerk's Office by staff of the Unified Court System. These writs are a small remnant of what must have been very large collections of writs that were discarded probably in the early twentieth century.

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