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Butts County - Superior Court - Equity Dockets

 Series
Identifier: 118-01-032

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 complaint, and (5) disposition of case. The type of complaints filed were those of divorce, bills for discovery and relief (a bill seeking disclosure of papers or facts within the defendant's possession or knowledge) and bills for injunction.

Dates

  • Created: 1831-1888

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

0.40 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

Entries are arranged and listed in chronological order by date of court.

Title
Butts County - Superior Court - Equity Dockets
Author
Georgia Archives
Description rules
Local
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States