This series contains plaintiffs' declarations, which were the initial pleadings in common law actions. The declaration was made out by the plaintiff's attorney after the defendant had been arrested by a writ of capias ad respondendum. The declaration contains caption (name of the court and the term in which the writ of capias was to be returned); venue; commencement (names of the plaintiff and defendant and of the plaintiff's attorney); and statement of cause of action.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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These two volumes contain the rough version of the engrossed minutes of the Supreme Court in its terms at Albany. These rough minutes sometimes contain less information than the engrossed minutes, especially in April term, 1797.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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This series contains two main groups of documents interfiled. The first group consists of plaintiffs' declarations or pleadings (in Latin, "narratio" or "narr."), with notices of the rule to plead; affidavits and admissions of service of these declarations; and related documents. The second group of documents found in this series is "motion papers," or notices of motions before the court, with affidavits stating the grounds on which the court is moved for a ruling.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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This series contains documents relating to clerkships served by persons who eventually would seek admission to practice as attorneys in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Records concerning law clerkships include certificates stating that a student began a clerkship and setting the term of the clerkship; affidavits of clerkship applicants; certificates attesting to the clerk's moral character; reports of examiners on whether individual candidates passed; and related documents.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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This series consists of receipts from county treasurers for money collected from attorneys for fees due to the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature. The county treasurers transmitted these monies pursuant to legislation of 1829 requiring them to receive and pay over all monies belonging to the state.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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This series contains records of the pleas, issue, trial, and verdict in civil causes in Circuit Courts. Each record has the following parts: the placita, which gives names of the parties; the memorandum, which gives the name of the court, the term, the names of plaintiff and defendant, and the plaintiff's initial declaration; the subsequent pleadings by both defendant and plaintiff; the imparlance; the award of jury process in Circuit Court; and the continuances.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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This account book contains a record of fees charged for filing declarations, judgments, satisfactions, motions, and other documents, and for performing searches of documents on file. Each entry gives the date of the fee, attorney's name, nature of fee charged, and amount of fee.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
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