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This series consists of bound volumes which document some of the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive dates listed below. Information presented in these volumes includes the (1) names of attorneys involved, (2) date and term of court, (3) names of litigants, (4) type of charge complained of, (5) an enumeration of the court costs and other costs and 6) case number (often not given.) Some of the charges complained of include those of assumpsits, garnishments and debts.

Scope and Contents This series is composed of bound volumes which document some of the criminal charges filed in the court for the inclusive dates listed. Information presented in these volumes includes the (1) date and ten of court, (2) names of attorneys involved, (3) names of defendants, (4) case n-s, (5) type of charges complained of and (6) comments by the judge. Entries are arranged and listed, in the Criminal Cases Pending volume, in chronological order by date and term of court and then by case number....

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Volumes are mortgages only

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These are precinct and county returns, tally sheets and other papers relating to elections for all offices from justice of the peace to presidential electors. The papers are bundled up just as hey were removed from the attic of the courthouse.

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This series is composed of bound volumes which document the executions issued by the court for the inclusive dates listed below. The format used to record this information various somewhat but generally it includes the: (1) date and term of court in which the fifa was issued; (2) name of litigants involved; (3) name of attorneys involved; (4) an enumeration of court costs; (5) number assigned case and (6) disposition of the case

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound volumes of which some are labeled Cost dockets and Judgment Dockets but are placed in this series because they are similar to execution dockets. These volumes document some of the civil and criminal complaints filed in this court for the inclusive dates listed below. Information presented in these volumes includes the (1) date and term of court, (2) names of litigants, (3) an enumeration of principal, interest and court costs involved, (4) case numbers and (5)...

Scope and Contents This volume list Fi Fa's turned over to the Sheriff to be served in executing or carrying out the judgement of the Inferior, Superior or County Courts of this county for the inclusive dates listed. Information presented includes the (1) name of the court issuing the execution, (2) name of attorney involved, (3) names of litigants, (4) an enumeration of court costs, (5) case number, (6) disposition of the case and (7) term of court in which costs were assessed. The only type of complaints...

Scope and Contents This series consists recorded copies of the records presented to the Superior Court as part of civil and criminal complaints filed in the court as well as county and court activities such as Grand Jury Presentments. Most civil cases consist of (1) the plaintiff's petition or complaint, (2) an order to the sheriff to serve the complaint on the defendant, (3) the defendant's reply, (4) a judgment by the court or the jury, (5) a notation showing execution of the judgment and (6) other documents...

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This series consists of two pages found in the back of a Superior Court Execution Docket. The information presented consists of only the names of the bride and groom and the day and month (but not the year of their marriage. The date probably occurred in the mid - 1860's.

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Included with the presentments are a few reports by committees of the grand jury, reports to the grand jury by county officials and requests to the jury that it make special recommendations. No "true bills" (or "no bills") of indictment are included. They are bundled up just as they were removed from the courthouse attic.

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Available on microfilm in the Research/Search room.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound volumes containing master indexes to the execution dockets found in R.G. 170-1-27. Information presented in them includes the (1) names of litigants, (2) term of court in which case appeared and (3) case number. These indexes are arranged and listed in alphabetical order by the initial letter of the litigants (both plaintiff and defendant) surname and thereunder in. chronological order by date and term of court in which the case was heard and then by the case...

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Included are lists of persons available for jury duty, writs of venire facias (orders to the sheriff to summon the persons names for jury service), lists of defaulters, affidavits of persons wishing to be excused from jury duty and orders by the court to strike from the lists those excused, court orders requiring defaulting jurors to show cause why they failed to appear for service, and related papers. Papers for both grand and petit juries are included.

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Included in this artificial series are a number of various types of bound and unbound records that were found in the attic of the courthouse. Most are unorganized. Many of these records will eventually be filed with other records whenever the other records in this sub-group are more properly arranged. The dates shown on the list below are approximate.

Scope and Contents These are petitions for dower, orders of the court appointing commissioners to lay out the dower from the estate of the widow's husband, reports to the court by the commissioners so appointed and sometimes plats showing the meets and bounds of the land laid out. In some cases there also are copies of notices, required by law, to other owners of the land by the widow announcing her intention to petition for dower. In some instances the petition was contested and in these instances there are...

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These are transcripts of proceedings of inquests held by coroners investigating the cause and circumstances surrounding the death of an individual. Many of these inquests concern violent deaths, sometimes accidental and sometimes by murder. These papers are bundled up just as they were removed from the courthouse attic.

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A fieri facias is a writ of execution usually levied upon goods to satisfy a debt owed the plaintiff. Most of the FiFas in these civil complaints involved collection of taxes and foreclosure of chattel mortgages. The criminal complaints include those of assault and battery, simple larceny and execution of warrants.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound volumes that documents sane of the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive dates listed below. Information presented in these volumes includes the (1) names of litigants, (2) amount of principal sum each defendant owes petitioner, (3) date such debt was due to be paid and date such debt was contracted, (4) type of instrument used (usually a promissory note), (5) date and term of court in which defendant was required to appear to answer complaint,...