Papers filed with the Court of Common Pleas during all proceedings of a civil case. Civil cases are non-criminal cases usually involving property rights, such as divorce, but also include injury and worker's compensation cases. Records may include pleadings, depostitions, commissions and interrogatories, warrants of attorney in every action, notes of testimony, reports of auditors, assignees, court rulings. Photographs and other forms of evidence may appear with the records. Documents show names of parties, dates, case number, and nature of plea.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year, then by case number.
Lancaster County Archives, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection, Title and Object ID, Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Only available on microfilm. See microfilm finding aid.
For the year 1997, the microfilm boxes are labeled LC1997 and the cases are still identified as CI-1997.
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A book of special entries of declarations, pleadings, issues, verdicts, judgments, and judicial process : in such actions as are now in use, and have not hitherto been published in any printed book of precedents : together with such notes and observations as do either illustrate or explain the same : as also such parts of pleadings and judicial process which do naturally fall under the division of each distinct title, as necessary and incident thereunto
Historical scrap book; a record of the celebration of the one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Bourbon County, Kentucky, May 13-20, 1961
Reports of certain cases, arising in the severall courts of record at Westminster; in the raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles. With the resolutions of the judges of the said courts, upon debate and solemn arguments
Collected by very good hands, and lately re-viewed, examined, and approved of by the late learned Justice Godbolt. And now published by W: Hughes ... With two tables, one of the cases, the other of the principall matter therein contain'd ...
Daniel and Mary Strickler, pioneers; a family record for Daniel and Mary Hammaker Strickler, Pennsylvania Dutch pioneers of 1839, Wayne County, Indiana, with illustrations, history of the Strickler family and other background information
"The Good side of my family" : a history of the Good-Goode-Guth family of Lancaster Co., Pa., and Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, with a record of some of the descendants of the family who moved elsewhere
Tauf & Communicanten Buch fuer die Lutherische Gemeinde in der Cocalico Salems Kirche in Zoar A.D. 1818 angenfanger unter Revd. Peter Filbert, Prediger allda
Responsibility
translated by Mr. and Mrs. M. Luther Heisey.
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
Photocopy, 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index of births.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 111 #4.
