Author: Vermont. County Court (Franklin County) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Actions and defenses Languages : en Pages :
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Case files include all documents generated during the process of a civil or criminal court trial, and may be extensive, minimal, or nonexistent for any given case. They may include writs, affidavits, depositions, subpoenas, verdicts, pleas, motions, warrants, indictments, informations, recognizances, mittimuses, bonds, bills of costs, witness certificates, transcripts, documents relating to appeals, and supporting documents such as deeds, promissory notes, statements, and inventories. In Franklin county court, naturalization records are also included with case files. Inquests and jail reports are included with case files if docketed, or placed with miscellaneous court records if undocketed. Franklin county court clerks arranged case files alphabetically by plaintiff for each court term, rather than by docket number. This order has been maintained. Each case is filed with the court term in which it ended. In a given court term, some cases reached a judgment or verdict, while other cases were ended by the plaintiff before judgment. The clerk separated judgments from discontinued cases, so case files are arranged for each term with judgments in alphabetical order, followed by discontinuances in alphabetical order. Miscellaneous files include court administration documents such as jail reports, jury venires, vouchers for costs from court officials or witnesses, financial accounts, documents related to licensing of public houses and peddlers, and bar admissions. There may also be inquests and case files for undocketed cases. From 1901-1917 probation reports are included in miscellaneous court documents. There are also some probation reports on individuals included with their criminal case files.
Author: Vermont. Supreme Court Publisher: ISBN: Category : Actions and defenses Languages : en Pages :
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Case files include all documents generated during the course of a supreme court trial, and may be extensive, minimal or nonexistent for any given case. They may include writs, affidavits, depositions, subpoenas, verdicts, pleas, motions, warrants, bonds, bills of costs, witness certificates, transcripts, findings of fact, master's reports, and documents relating to appeals, such as bills of exceptions. There may also be supporting documents such as deeds, promissory notes, statements and inventories. Franklin County court clerks arranged case files alphabetically by plaintiff for each court term, rather than by docket number. This order has been maintained. Each case is filed with the court term in which it ended. In a given court term, some cases reached a judgment or verdict, while other cases were ended by the plaintiff before judgment. The clerk separated judgments from discontinued cases, so case files are arranged for each term with judgments in alphabetical order, followed by discontinuances in alphabetical order. Miscellaneous supreme court files include court administration documents such as financial accounts, supreme court bar admissions, and instructions to the court clerk. Chancery court case files predating September 1840, and some 1840-1843 cases, are included with supreme court case files, since chancery court was part of the supreme court during this period.
Author: Vermont. Court of Chancery Publisher: ISBN: Category : Actions and defenses Languages : en Pages :
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Case files include all of the documents generated during the process of a chancery court trial, and may be extensive, minimal or nonexistent for any given case. Most documents are related to real estate foreclosures, and include a bill of foreclosure, a master's report that calculates the amount owed on the mortgage, and a decree of foreclosure if the plaintiff wins the case. Supporting documents often include mortgages, deeds, promissory notes, and receipts. Subpoenas, affidavits, depositions, motions, pleas, bills of costs, and requests for extension of redemption may also be included. Chancery cases involving requests for injunctions include a bill of complaint and defendant's answer to the bill. There may also be bonds, findings of fact, master's reports, and temporary or permanent injunctions. A third category of chancery cases includes documents related to dissolving business partnerships and corporations and to placing businesses in receivership. Chancery case files are arranged alphabetically by plaintiff for each court term. Pre-1913 case files separate judgments from discontinued cases for each court term; after 1913 judgments and discontinuances are combined in one sequence of case files. Chancery court case files preceding Sept. 1840, and some 1840-1843 cases, are included with supreme court case files (see Series SUPR-FR-003), since chancery court was held by the supreme court during that period.
Author: Loren Schweninger Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807837504 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces rose steadily during the antebellum era? In Families in Crisis in the Old South, Loren Schweninger uses previously unexplored records to argue that the difficulties these divorcing families faced reveal much about the reality of life in a slave-holding society as well as the myriad difficulties confronted by white southern families who chose not to divorce. Basing his argument on almost 800 divorce cases from the southern United States, Schweninger explores the impact of divorce and separation on white families and on the enslaved and provides insights on issues including domestic violence, interracial adultery, alcoholism, insanity, and property relations. He examines how divorce and separation laws changed, how married women's property rights expanded, how definitions of inhuman treatment of wives evolved, and how these divorces challenged conventional mores.
Author: Vermont. County Court (Franklin County)
Author: Marge Small Kieffer
Author: Jean Winters
Author: Vermont. Supreme Court
Author: Jacob Henry Studer
Author: Vermont. Court of Chancery
Author: Loren Schweninger
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Author: Laurene T. McKillop