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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)

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Title

Rockland County sewer commissioners meeting minutes, county court records, and subdivision maps

Series Number

A4626

Creator

• Rockland (N.Y. : County)

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Title

Copies of pleadings furnished to Circuit Courts

Series Number

J0023

Summary

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.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

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Title

Court minutes

Series Number

J0037

Summary

This series consists of bound volumes of minutes created by the clerk of the Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Department. Minutes typically include a listing of cases in which motions were submitted to the court and a listing, by calendar number, of cases argued before the court.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division. Third Department

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Title

Declarations

Series Number

J0015

Summary

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.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

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Title

Miscellaneous motions

Series Number

J0001

Summary

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.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Geneva)

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Title

Index to Chancery decrees filed in New York City

Series Number

JN303

Summary

Volumes in this series index the enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery that were filed with the Chancery clerks in New York City. The volumes do not index decrees filed in Albany, or decrees of the Vice Chancellors in the eight Chancery Circuits. The four volumes contain essentially the same data, but they were prepared at different times after 1847. Each entry states the last name of the indebted party (usually defendant) and the prevailing party (usually complainant), and the year of the decree. There are many annotations, corrections, and additions in each volume. The first three volumes are manuscript; the fourth is a typescript prepared in 1923.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Prerogative Court

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Title

Oversized enrolled decrees

Series Number

JN302

Summary

This series contains oversized enrolled decrees in bound volumes and folders. Each decree was signed by the Vice-Chancellor in the 1st Circuit or by the Chancellor. One case was commenced in 1839 and finally determined by the Supreme Court in Equity (New York County) in 1893.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

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Title

Special bail books

Series Number

J2202

Summary

These volumes are dockets of undertaking 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 (Utica)

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Title

Clerk's minutes

Series Number

J0212

Summary

This series consists of bound minute books compiled by the clerk of the Court of Appeals commencing after the court was reconstituted under the Judiciary Article of 1869. Daily entries include name of chief judge presiding, list of motions, list of cases argued before the court, decisions and orders handed down, and individual numbers of cases on the calendar for the next upcoming court session.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Appeals

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Title

Writs of commission

Series Number

J0170

Summary

This series consists of writs of commission, directed to commissioners appointed by the writ, to take depositions from material witnesses residing in other states or countries. The return to the writ consists of the answers of the witness to interrogatories, transcribed and certified by the commissioners.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany and Utica)

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Title

Miscellaneous motions

Series Number

J1126

Summary

This is a fragmentary series of "Motion Papers" arranged by attorney's name (1832: B-C and 1837: B, G only). Affidavits of motions state the grounds on which the court will be moved. There are motions for judgment as in case of non-suit; for change of venue; for taxation of a bill of costs; to set aside a judgment; to obtain writs of certiorari, error, and mandamus; and to refer a case to an outside party to determine amount of judgment.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

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Title

Index to cases transferred by Clerk of Eighth Circuit to Supreme Court

Series Number

J0238

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

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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)

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Title

Court calendars

Series Number

J4089

Summary

This series consists of court calendars prepared by the Register for the Chancellor. Entries consist of a priority number (starting at "1"), the names of the complainant and defendant, the date the case was begun, the method by which the case reached the hearing stage (e.g., bill confessed, demurrer, bill and answer), and the names of the solicitors.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

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Title

Rough minute books

Series Number

J1130

Summary

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.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)

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Title

Declarations and motions before 1830

Series Number

J0010

Summary

This fragmentary series contains declarations, writs of inquiry and inquisitions, motion papers of all kinds, cognovits, stipulations, exceptions, demurrers, and other miscellaneous documents.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

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Title

Cognovits

Series Number

J0004

Summary

The relicta et cognovit is the defendant's confession that he is liable for the debt or other damages alleged in the plaintiff's declaration, plus any costs and charges arising out of the action. The document gives the names of the parties and their attorneys and the amount of damages claimed. It is signed by the plaintiff's attorney.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)

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Title

Supreme Court of Judicature (New York) insolvency papers

Series Number

J2000

Summary

This series includes documents relating to the assignment and sale of property of insolvent debtors who petitioned for relief, or the attachment and sale of property of "absconding, concealed, or non-resident debtors" in response to the petition of creditors. Most of the petitions were directed to the Recorder of the City of New York. Other petitions were directed to a justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature. Documents include petitions of debtors and their creditors requesting sale of property; affidavits of creditors; accounts of debts owed to creditors; orders for assignment of property to trustees for sale; and documents discharging the debtors from further liability. Most of the files related to debtors residing in New York City. Some files relate to debtors elsewhere in the state.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)

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Title

Digests of opinions

Series Number

J2014

Summary

The series consists of printed digests indexing opinions of three judges of the Court of Appeals: Judge O'Brien - from Volume 119 to and including Volume 164 New York Reports; Judge Bartlett - from Volume 141 to and including Volume 164 New York Reports; and Chief Judge Alton B. Parker - from Volume 114 to and including Volume 164 New York Reports.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Appeals

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