York County District Court Records - Accession 827

The York County District Court Records collection consists of 2 duplicate rolls of microfilm purchased from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History where the originals are located. The rolls consists of copies of the Names, Offenses, Dispositions, and the Court Term for each case tried in York County, SC during the 1866-1868 sessions. Many of the offenses include larceny, assault, battery, “bastardy,” “hog stealing,” “Cow stealing,” “Killing a cow,” “bigamy,” etc. Included are scans of original documents of the cases including warrants, pleadings, motions, memoranda, and verdicts.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2073/thumbnail.jp

Monongalia County Court Records

The purpose of this paper is to invite the attention of the bar of this state to an undertaking which is expected to prove interesting and valuable to that group. A thorough examination and classification of the court records of Monongalia County, West Virginia, is being conducted under the direction of West Virginia University and the Committee on Legal History of the State Bar Association. The object is to render the material contained in the records available for historical and legal research

Clark County Probate Court Records

Clark County was established in 1818, and therefore became one of the five counties in existence at the time the area became known as Arkansas Territory in 1819. Court was held in various places in those early days, such as the home of pioneer settler Jacob Barkman, west of the Caddo River, near what is now Caddo Valley. Later, a county seat was established at Greenville, which was located to the southwest along the Military Road (also known as the Southwest Trail). In 1842 Arkadelphia (previously known as Blakelytown) became the permanent location of the county seat. The county has not suffered a court house fire and possesses government records created since 1819. Various court records were moved in several phases to the Riley-Hickingbotham Library as a part of the Clark County Records Preservation Project, which began in 1990. The project, a joint undertaking between OBU and the Clark County Historical Association, includes the arrangement, description, and preservation of records once located in the Clark County Court House. The goal of the project is to preserve and make accessible this part of Clark County history. These numbered files contain loose papers related to probate cases, from the county\u27s earliest days through the mid-twentieth century. The Clark County Historical Association has produced a print index which includes names of not only those in the title of the case, but also witnesses, jurors, attorneys, etc

Clark County Civil Court Records

Clark County was established in 1818, and therefore became one of the five counties in existence at the time the area became known as Arkansas Territory in 1819. Court was held in various places in those early days, such as the home of pioneer settler Jacob Barkman, west of the Caddo River, near what is now Caddo Valley. Later, a county seat was established at Greenville, which was located to the southwest along the Military Road (also known as the Southwest Trail). In 1842 Arkadelphia (previously known as Blakelytown) became the permanent location of the county seat. These numbered files contain loose papers related to civil cases in the Clark County Circuit Court, 1884-1988. A searchable database of every name within the records from 1879 to 1920 is available at www.obu.edu/archives/search-archives/. The Clark County Historical Association has published a print index as well. The index includes not only those named in the title of the case, but also witnesses, jurors, attorneys, etc

Clark County Criminal Court Records

Clark County was established in 1818, and therefore became one of the five counties in existence at the time the area became known as Arkansas Territory in 1819. Court was held in various places in those early days, such as the home of pioneer settler Jacob Barkman, west of the Caddo River, near what is now Caddo Valley. Later, a county seat was established at Greenville, which was located to the southwest along the Military Road (also known as the Southwest Trail). In 1842 Arkadelphia (previously known as Blakelytown) became the permanent location of the county seat. The county has not suffered a court house fire and possesses government records created since 1819. Various court records were moved in several phases to the Riley-Hickingbotham Library as a part of the Clark County Records Preservation Project, which began in 1990. The project, a joint undertaking between OBU and the Clark County Historical Association, includes the arrangement, description, and preservation of records once located in the Clark County Court House. The goal of the project is to preserve and make accessible this part of Clark County history. These numbered files contain loose papers related to criminal cases of the Clark County Circuit Court, 1879-1982. A searchable database of every name within the records for 1879-1951 is available at www.obu.edu/archives/search-archives/. The Clark County Historical Association has published a print index as well. The index includes not only those named in the title of the case, but also witnesses, jurors, attorneys, etc

Clark County Circuit Court Records

Clark County was established in 1818, and therefore became one of the five counties in existence at the time the area became known as Arkansas Territory in 1819. Court was held in various places in those early days, such as the home of pioneer settler Jacob Barkman, west of the Caddo River, near what is now Caddo Valley. Later, a county seat was established at Greenville, which was located to the southwest along the Military Road (also known as the Southwest Trail). In 1842 Arkadelphia (previously known as Blakelytown) became the permanent location of the county seat. The county has not suffered a court house fire and possesses government records created since 1819. Various court records were moved in several phases to the Riley-Hickingbotham Library as a part of the Clark County Records Preservation Project, which began in 1990. The project, a joint undertaking between OBU and the Clark County Historical Association, includes the arrangement, description, and preservation of records once located in the Court House. The goal of the project is to preserve and make accessible this part of Clark County history. These numbered files contain loose papers related to Circuit Court cases, 1819-1878. A searchable database of every name within the records is available at www.obu.edu/archives/search-archives/. The Clark County Historical Association has published a print index as well. The index includes not only those named in the title of the case, but also witnesses, jurors, attorneys, etc

Hunting Down the Payday Loan Customer: The Debt Collection Practices of Two Payday Loan Companies

Examines the court records of borrowers taken to court by two companies now offering payday installment loans. These loans, which were made before the Payday Loan Reform Act (PLRA), show the types of abuses and aggressive litigation borrowers can expect from these companies currently offering loans designed to circumvent the law

Descent of the Papersquashers

Court records are complex. To understand them, special training is necessary. For archivists the court records we have in our collections are mysteries we crave to unravel, but never have the time to do so. The court records of Mississippi have taken on a new meaning and importance for archivists in the past year

Litigious Vermonters : court records to 1825

Occasional paper (University of Vermont. Center for Research on Vermont) ; no. 2

Book Reviews

Review of the following book: Province and Court Records of Maine, Volume 6: The Court Records of York County, Maine, Province of Massachusetts Bay, January 1718-1719-October 1727 by Neal W. Allen, Jr., with introduction by Robert E. Moody