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Displaying 208 Finding Aids
Title
- Miscellaneous unfiled documents
Series Number
- J9813
Summary
- This series consists of judgment rolls, declarations, and other documents which were never filed because the attorneys were delinquent in paying their accounts. Most of the papers are still enclosed in the original wrappers bearing notes in red ink as to the contents and the accounts not paid.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Orders for appointment of guardian or next friend
Series Number
- J5026
Summary
- This series consists of petitions to a Supreme Court justice, commissioner, or judge of a court of common pleas for appointment of a guardian for an infant-defendant, or a next friend (prochein ami) for an infant-plaintiff (a minor could not appear in court).
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Supreme Court (Third District) special term minute book
Series Number
- J0216
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court (Third District)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Aerial photograph maps of quadrangles in various New York counties
Series Number
- B2272
Summary
- These aerial photographs depict United States Geological Survey (USGS) quadrangles in Onondaga, Cayuga, Oswego, Broome, Cortland, and Tioga Counties. They include highways, railroads, and municipalities.
Creator
- Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Planning Division
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Registers of returns of writs of execution
Series Number
- J1153
Summary
- These registers contain entries of returns of writs of execution by sheriffs in counties served by the Albany office of the Supreme Court. The returns are mostly writs of fieri facias (fi. fa.) and capias ad satisfaciendum (ca. sa.), but there are a few for writs of habere facere possessionem and scire facias.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Affidavits of justification of special bail
Series Number
- J1098
Summary
- This series consists of affidavits of special bail for defendants. Each affidavit states that the special bail is worth double the amount demanded by the plaintiff in the writ of capias ad respondendum, after payment of all his debts, and that he is a freeholder or housekeeper in the county where the defendant resides.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Writs of inquiry and inquisitions
Series Number
- J0027
Summary
- This series consists of writs of inquiry, which were orders of the Supreme Court of Judicature under seal, commanding a sheriff to empanel a jury to determine the exact damages sustained by the plaintiff who had obtained an interlocutory judgment.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany, Utica, and Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register's and clerks' reports of delinquent guardians, committees and receivers
Series Number
- J3076
Summary
- This series consists of reports listing court-appointed guardians, committees, and receivers who failed to file inventories and accounts with the court three months after the filing deadline. Entries include the title of the cause or matter (including the name(s) of the infant, idiot, lunatic, or habitual drunkard); the name of the delinquent; whether s/he is a guardian, committee, or receiver; and appointment date. Included are only reports filed by the Register and Clerks of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th circuits.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Notes of issue
Series Number
- J3089
Summary
- This series consists of notes of issue filed with the Register or Assistant Register of the Court of Chancery. The court rules required a solicitor to file a note of issue at least four days before the beginning of a court term or his case would not be scheduled for a hearing.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Bonds of plaintiffs and appellants
Series Number
- J0152
Summary
- This series consists of obligations binding a plaintiff (in cases heard by the Supreme Court of Judicature) or an appellant (in appealed cases heard by the Supreme Court or the Court of Errors) and his surety for payment of costs and damages if the decision of the court goes against him. An appellant in Supreme Court or the Court of Errors was required by legislation of 1829 to give bond. There are few bonds dating before 1823.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva) copies of pleadings furnished to circuit courts
Series Number
- J0146
Summary
- This series contains records of the pleas, issue, trial, and verdict in civil causes in Circuit Courts. Records documenting civil causes provide name of court; term; names of plaintiff and defendant; names of the judge, attorneys, jurors, and witnesses; and the jury's verdict and its award of damages and costs.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Writs of error
Series Number
- J0031
Summary
- Files in this series usually include the writ of error ordering the lower court to return records of the case to the Supreme Court; the lower court's return or answer; and the defendant's bill of exceptions stating the objections to the lower court proceedings. Defendants obtained writs of error to have a cause, previously judged in an inferior court, removed to the Supreme Court for review.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Registers of returns of writs
Series Number
- J0153
Summary
- These registers contain entries of writs issued by the court and returned by sheriffs. The returns are for writs of capias ad respondendum, by which defendants were arrested and held for appearance in court; writs of habeas corpus, by which defendants, witnesses, or other persons were arrested for the same purpose; and the various writs of execution issued subsequent to a final judgment.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Fines and chirographs
Series Number
- J1011
Summary
- Records of court agreements settling legal actions concerning conveyance of real property include writs of convenant, licenses to agree, concords, the note of the fine summarizing the writ of covenant and the concord, and the foot of the fine conveying the property. Other documents in the series include warrants of attorney, writs of dedimus potestatem, and affidavits of newspaper publication.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger of fees paid by solicitors and counsellors
Series Number
- J0078
Summary
- This series is a record of fees paid by solicitors and counsellors to the Register. Each account contains the name and residence of a solicitor, counsellor, or law partnership and a listing of fees. Each entry in an account gives the date the fee was charged, the title of the case, the service provided (e.g., "filed bill," "entered in Rough Minutes"), and the fee. At the end of the account is the total amount of fees.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery. Chancery Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Clerk's minutes of foreclosure decrees
Series Number
- J0050
Summary
- This series contains copies of decrees issued by the Vice Chancellors of the 4th, 7th, and 8th Circuits authorizing the sale of land in mortgage foreclosure cases. Each decree contains the following information: date and location of the hearing during which the decree was issued; names of the complainant, defendant, and Master investigating the case; date the Master's report was filed; amount of the mortgage and, if partially paid, amount outstanding; and description of the land to be sold.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Writs of dower
Series Number
- J5013
Summary
- This series consists of writs of dower, issued under seal of the Supreme Court, which ordered a sheriff to command the tenant of real estate to render unto the widow of its previous owner the one third dower right due to her, and to summon him to appear before the court if he refused to do so.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Assignments of errors
Series Number
- J2026
Summary
- This series consists of assignments of errors made by plaintiffs in error in Supreme Court. The assignment of errors corresponds to the declaration in an original action. In it the plaintiff in error states the "manifest error" found in the record, proceedings, and judgment in a case heard and decided by a lower court, and asks that the higher court reverse and annul the judgment.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Committiturs and orders for exoneration of bail
Series Number
- J0143
Summary
- This series contains documents pertaining to the surrender of a defendant and exoneration of his bail from liability for damages and costs awarded in a judgment. Bail might choose to render over their principal (i.e. the defendant) either before or after judgment, but it had to be done before return of writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which commanded a sheriff to arrest and imprison a judgment debtor until the judgment was satisfied.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Judith S. Kaye speeches and articles
Series Number
- B2593
Summary
- This series contains speeches and articles by Judith S. Kaye during her time as an associate judge and later Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. It also contains speeches and articles from after her retirement.
Creator
- Kaye, Judith S., 1938-2016
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.