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Displaying 306 Finding Aids
Title
- In re papers
Series Number
- J0057
Summary
- This series document cases brought before the Chancellor by petition and in certain administrative matters. Most cases involved incompetency (i.e., lunatics, infants, drunkards); administration of estates; and insolvent corporate bodies (i.e., churches, banks, railroads). Files include petitions; reports; testimony transcripts; copies of orders; affidavits; inquisitions; bonds for performance of duties; property inventories; documentary evidence and exhibits. The files do not contain decrees. Cases often contain detailed information on the background, behavior, and financial state of individuals or corporations.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Attorney General's Office register containing abstracts of legal matters
Series Number
- B0910
Summary
- This volume contains abstracts of various court cases. Abstracts provide case name and volume and page citations to case registers. Many of the abstracts also provide names of attorneys, case venue, and remarks regarding case outcome.
Creator
- New York (State). Attorney General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Ontario County Surrogate's Court case files
Series Number
- A4647
Creator
- Ontario (N.Y. : County)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Recognizance rolls
Series Number
- J1003
Summary
- This series contains recognizance rolls, which are records of the undertaking of bail, made before a justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature. The roll contains the same information as is found in the plaintiff's declaration, followed by a statement of the obligation of the bail. The recognizance roll was the formal record upon which a plaintiff could bring an action against the defendant's bail.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Court of Appeals Justices' registers
Series Number
- J0312
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Appeals
Access Restrictions
- Access to this series is restricted. Prior permission of Court of Appeals is required as stipulated by State Judiciary Law, Section 90.10.
Title
- Maps filed with Court of Chancery, Supreme Court of Judicature, and Court of Appeals
Series Number
- J8000
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Appeals
Title
- Case status registers of cases brought before the Attorney General
Series Number
- B0907
Summary
- This series consists of bound registers used to track the status of cases that were brought before the the New York State Attorney General's Office.
Creator
- New York (State). Attorney General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Rough minutes
Series Number
- J0108
Summary
- This series consists of manuscript rough minutes compiled by the clerk of the original Court of Appeals during the period from July 1847 to June of 1870. Also included are rough minutes compiled by the clerk of the temporary Commission of Appeals during the period from July of 1870 to June of 1875. Rough minutes were typically used to generate the official, engrossed minutes of the court.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Appeals
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Special bail books
Series Number
- J1202
Summary
- This series consists of dockets of undertakings of bail. Each entry gives the names of defendant and plaintiff, names of the bail (sometimes with their residences and occupations or ranks), name of defendant's attorney, and date of filing. Usually one of the bail is a fictitious person, i.e., "John Doe" or "Richard Roe."
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica) judgment rolls
Series Number
- J0134
Summary
- This series consists of judgment rolls which have been signed, filed, and docketed by the clerk of the Supreme Court. The judgment roll contains the record of pleadings and proceedings in a cause, prepared by the attorney for the party to whom the judgment has been awarded. Accompanying the judgment roll proper are copies of other documents filed in the cause, in what may be termed the judgment record.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Court of Chancery Chancellor's minutes
Series Number
- J0082
Summary
- This series consists of Chancellor Reuben H. Walworth's personal notes on cases in Chancery. The form of the notes and the information they contain varies among cases. Appearing for all cases are the names of the parties and their solicitors and the date the case was heard by the Chancellor. The Chancellor's personal comments on a case sometimes also appear.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
New York State Department of Health Bureau of Adjudication State Administrative Procedures Act Index
Title
- Department of Health Bureau of Adjudication State Administrative Procedures Act index
Series Number
- B2917
Summary
- This series serves as an index to Series 17373, Department of Health Adjudication Case Files. The index is in chronological order by year and therein alphabetical by case name. It provides the case name, document type, date signed or served, and document number.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Adjudication
Access Restrictions
- Certain data in these indexes is exempt from disclosure under state and/or federal law. State Archives staff will review requests for specific data and disclose in accordance with New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
Title
- Supreme Court of Judicature summaries of testimony given in circuit courts and courts of oyer and terminer
Series Number
- J3011
Summary
- This fragmentary series consists of summaries of testimony and proceedings in the Circuit Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer. At the head of each document are the names of the courts, the venue, the date, and the names of the presiding justices. Following are entries for each case (civil or criminal) heard by the justices.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Assorted estrayed documents
Series Number
- J1000
Summary
- This series consists of a variety of documents from the Supreme Courts of Judicature at Albany, Geneva, and Utica. Included are motions; briefs; pleadings; writs of venire; returns of writs of error, certiorari, and commission; appointments of guardians; conditional testimony; cognovits; draft rules; affidavits; writs of commission; reports of commissioners of appraisal regarding land; and writs of satisfaction, ejectment, and eases. It contains depositions regarding the last will, the business and official records, and the property of Sir William Johnson.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Attorney General's Office transcripts of hearings and stenographer's notes for the case of the People of New York vs. Henry D. Denison, et al. relating to work done on the Erie Canal
Series Number
- B0906
Summary
- In a case that played out over the course of a decade, the State of New York brought legal action against canal contractors Henry D. Denison, James J. Belden, A. Caldwell Belden, and Thomas Gale in an effort to recover money allegedly obtained through fraudulent means. This series consists of an incomplete set of handwritten stenographer's notes, a partial printed trial transcript, and printed copies of legal briefs filed in State Supreme Court and the State Court of Appeals. In the end, efforts by both sides to recover funds believed owed to them were unsuccessful.
Creator
- New York (State). Attorney General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Listing of receivers, committees, and guardians
Series Number
- J0055
Summary
- The power of the Chancellor or Vice Chancellor to appoint committees or guardians for idiots, lunatics, or insolvent corporations is derived from English precedent. This power was extended to the appointment of guardians for infants by Chapter 106 of the Laws of 1815 and to the appointment of committees for habitual drunkards by Chapter 109 of the Laws of 1821. This series is an alphabetical listing of receivers, committees, and guardians appointed by the Vice Chancellor.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Partial index to minute books
Series Number
- J2130
Summary
- This volume is a partial index to General and Special Term Minute Books of the Supreme Court of Judicature in its terms at Albany. Only selected cases are included, and the exact criteria for selection are unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register's rough minutes
Series Number
- J0069
Summary
- This series contains a brief daily record of actions taken in cases heard by the Chancellor of the State Court of Chancery. The date of the hearing, the names of the parties and their attorneys, and a statement of actions taken are recorded for each case.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Chancery
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Special bail pieces
Series Number
- J0096
Summary
- The special bail piece is a memorandum filed with the court stating that the defendant has been delivered to bail. It gives the names of the defendant and plaintiff; name, occupation or rank, and residence of the bail (two persons are named, but generally one is fictitious--"John Doe" or "Richard Roe"); and type of common law action. There are relatively few bail pieces for the period 1831-1847 because of the liberalization of bail requirements by the Revised Statutes of 1829 and because bail pieces were then customarily included in the judgment rolls.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Records of supersedeas
Series Number
- B0047
Summary
- This series records the discharge of appointed civil officials named by the governor and the Council of Appointment. Information includes discharged official's name, position, appointment date, discharge date, governor authorizing the discharge and the name of the secretary of state or his deputy. Types of officials include surrogates, clerks of the courts, justices, commissioners of excise, commissioners of deeds, district attorneys and commissioner of deeds in other states.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.