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Displaying 28 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
- Supreme Court of Judicature (New York) index to returns of writs and executions
Series Number
- J0210
Summary
- This series consists of indexes to writs returned by sheriffs and other court officers to the clerks of the Supreme Court at New York City. Indexes to writs returned to the Supreme Court provide date of return, name of attorney, names of plaintiff and defendant, type of writ, and hour returned.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Miscellaneous filed documents
Series Number
- J0012
Summary
- This series consists of miscellaneous documents which did not fall into any other series and were filed together by the court clerk. They include draft rules, orders for exoneration of bail and surrender of defendants, recognizances of bail, consents to change attorneys, petitions and orders for appointment of guardians, testimony taken conditionally, oyers of bonds sued upon, a few records of cases remitted, appointments of clerks, replications and rejoinders, and other miscellaneous documents.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Ledgers of accounts with attorneys
Series Number
- J1244
Summary
- These volumes contain accounts with attorneys practicing in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Albany, Utica, and Geneva. Accounts include name of attorney and debits for filing documents, sealing writs, certifying copies, searching for judgments unsatisfied, and other fees.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Certificates of clerkships
Series Number
- J0104
Summary
- 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.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Cash book for clerk's fees
Series Number
- J0230
Summary
- 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.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Certificates of clerkships
Series Number
- J1104
Summary
- 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.
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
- J0226
Summary
- This fragmentary series consists of registers of returns of writs issued by the court and returned by sheriffs to circuit courts in various upstate counties. The returns are for writs of capias ad respondendum, by which defendants were arrested and held for appearance in court; for writs of summons, by which corporations were summoned to appear; and for the various writs of execution issued subsequent to a final judgment (the writs of fieri facias, capias ad satisfaciendum, and habere facias possessionem).
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.