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 the names of the parties; the memorandum; the subsequent pleadings by both defendant and plaintiff; the imparlance, or allowance to the defendant of time to plead; the award of jury process in Circuit Court; and the continuances, or postponements, if any in the cause.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)
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This series consists of fragments from other series originally filed in the Albany, Geneva, and perhaps Utica offices of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Most of the documents are motions, cognovits, writs of execution (usually fi. fa.), briefs, and affidavits of service of declarations. There are also a few returns to writs of certiorari, depositions de bene esse, returns to writs of commission, etc.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Geneva)
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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.
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New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
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Card index documents judgments of the Supreme Court of Judicature filed in the court clerk's office in New York City between 1781 and June 30, 1847, and of the Supreme Court (New York County) filed in the New York County Clerk's Office from July 1, 1847 to the end of 1910. Judgment rolls filed prior to 1848 are in series JN529. Judgment rolls filed after 1847 are retained in the New York County Clerk's Office. Each card contains data fields for plaintiff, defendant, court, filing date, and file reference code.
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New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office
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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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