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This volume is used to document the appeals the litigants filed in the court and the judgments resulting from such claims. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of parties in action; (3) names of attorneys involved; (4) case number; (5) name of complaint charged, and (6) disposition of case. Some of the charges complained of include those involving debt, assumpit, divorce and trepass.

Scope and Contents This series is composed of a bound volume which documents the civil complaints filed in this court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) case number; (3) names of parties involved; (4) type of complaint charged; (5) names of attorneys, and (6) date of and disposition of case. The type of charges complained of were those involving property such as debt, assumpsit (that is, an assumption of ownership of a form of...

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume which documents the court costs resulting from civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information contained in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court (often not given); (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) names of parties to action; (4) charges made by plaintiffs; (5) an enumeration of Clerk's costs; (6) an enumeration of Sheriff's costs (usually not given); (7) witness fees (rarely given); (8) remarks, and...

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This series is composed of a bound volume that documents the civil and criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed and the subsequent subpoenas that were issued. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of parties involved in case; (2) date and term of court; (3) type of charge involved (usually not given); (4) disposition of case, and (5) names of witnesses. Some of the charges complained of include those of bastardy, assumpsit and murder.

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This series is composed of a bound volume that documents the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed below and the subsequent subpoenas that were issued. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) name of plaintiff and defendant; (3) names of plaintiff's and defendant's witnesses; (4) date subpoena was issued to each witness; (5) name of the officer (Sheriff) who delivered subpoena and, (6) Sheriff's return and remarks.

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A claim docket contains information which documents the claims of individuals against the property of other litigants. These dockets are similar to other civil cases except they are limited to claims cases. The bound volumes comprising this series contain information which includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of litigants; (3) case number, and (4) disposition of case.

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume which documents the civil and criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented includes: (1) names of attorneys involved (in civil cases); (2) case number (not always given); (3) date and term of court in which case was docketed (not always given); (4) names of litigants; (5) type of complaint charged; (6) disposition of case, and (7) names of witnesses (in criminal cases). Criminal complaints included...

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume which documents the court costs involved in civil and criminal cases filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed and a ledger which records receipts the court paid to certain individuals. Information presented in the case file portion includes: (1) date and (sometimes) term of court; (2) names of litigants; (3) an enumeration of the costs and type of service rendered, and (4) the case number. The ledger portion includes the date of receipt,...

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The bound volumes comprising this series document the criminal cases filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. The information presented in these volumes includes: (1) the date and term of court; (2) name of attorneys; (3) case number; (4) name of defendant; (5) type of complaint charged against the defendant, and (6) disposition of case. The charges filed against the defendants includes larceny, arson, attempted rape and assault and battery.

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This series is composed of bound volumes that document the criminal charges filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these dockets includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) name of defendant; (3) names of witnesses; (4) date subpoena was issued and, (5) name of person subpoena was delivered to summon defendant (usually the sheriff).

Scope and Contents Equity cases are supplementary to cases tried under statute law but they allow courts to render judgments that are more flexible and more humane than judgments allowed under common or statute law. The bound volumes comprising this series document the civil complaints concerning equity matters filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of litigants; (3) names of attorneys; (4) nature of...

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Execution dockets are used by the court to document the execution of judgments in civil cases. This series is composed of bound volumes which provide documentation for the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; 3) case number; (4) names of litigants; (5) an enumeration of court costs, and (6) date of disposition of case.

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This series is composed of bound volumes which document the names of the mortgagors and mortgagees recorded in the court for the inclusive dates listed below and is very similar to Series 2 of this Record Group. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) name of grantor; (2) name of grantee; (3) type of instrument used in transaction, that is, deed, lien or mortgage, and (4) date and hour the transaction was recorded by the court.

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume which documents the names of the litigants involved in civil complaints before the court for the inclusive dates listed and is very similar to other civil dockets of this court. Information presented includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) case number; (4) names of litigants; (5) type of charge complained of; (6) remarks (concerning disposition of case), and (7) final disposition of case. The type of charges complained...

Scope and Contents The bound volumes comprising this series document some of the criminal cases filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. The information presented in these volumes includes: (1) name of defendant; (2) names of State's witnesses; (3) names of defendant's witnesses; (4) type of complaint charged against the defendant; (5) date and term of court; (6) disposition of case, and (7) case number. The charges filed against these defendants include adultery, carrying concealed weapons and...

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This series consists of a list of persons who made contracts with freedmen and provide documentation of similar information. It is not known where these contracts are located but they presumably were recorded in the Clerk's office. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of employer; (2) name of freedman (surname usually not given); (3) date contract was recorded, and (4) number of contract (or page).

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This series consists of one bound volume which documents the names of the litigants appearing in this court. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of plaintiffs and defendants and (2) the box numbers of the Woodruff boxes (supposedly) in which the loose case files are located.

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Indexes to the names of the mortgagees and mortgagors recorded in Butts County mortgages. Information recorded includes: (1) the names of mortgagees and mortgagors; (2) type of transaction, that is, mortgage, lien or note; (3) date of transaction; (4) date recorded and, (5) book and page number. Please see RG 118-01-001, Butts County Mortgages.

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Issue dockets (sometimes called Bench or Bar dockets) are used to document civil cases docketed for trial by the Court. This series consists of bound volumes that document the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) names of the principal parties involved; (2) date and term of court; (3) names of attorneys; (4) case number, and (5) disposition of case.

Scope and Contents This series consists of recorded copies of mortgages filed with the Clerk of Court. Most of the mortgaged property consists of farm animals, farm instruments, crops, and land. The majority of the mortgages are for chattels although some real estate mortgages are included. Information recorded includes: (1) name of mortgager; (2) name of mortgagee; (3) description of the mortgaged property; (4) names of witnesses; (5) amount of money loaned and interest charged; (6) date of mortgage and...

Scope and Contents Motion dockets are volumes containing all civil cases pending in its respective court related to motions which are to be decided by the judge without intervention by a jury such as applications for the granting of a corporation charter, applications for dower, motions to set aside a Sheriff's sale or motions for injunctions. This series is composed of bound volumes documenting all such cases appearing before this court for the inclusive date span listed below. These volumes contain...

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This series is composed of bound volumes which contain declaratory statements, appraisements of property, bills of complaint, promissory notes, petitions, land plats and similar records that were accepted or declined by the court as evidence presented to the court to document a civil complaint.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound volumes which document the executions the Sheriff made upon the property of the defendants as a result of the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (I) names of attorneys involved; (2) case number; (3) date and term of court execution was returnable; (4) an enumeration of the judgment and costs of court; (5) date writ was received; (6) name of person who received writ, and (7)...

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This series consists of a bound volume which documents the criminal charges filed in the court for the date span listed and the supoenas issued by the court as a result of such charges. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of the defendant; (2) names of witnesses; (3) designation of either plaintiff or defendant or both requesting subpoena be issued; (4) date subpoena was received; (5) date subpoena was served, and (6) name of person serving subpoena.