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.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please request at Reference Desk or Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Copyright
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Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Marriage applications completed by the bride and groom contain the names, ages, places of birth, current residences, occupation of groom, if either party had been married before and the results of that union, signatures of applicants, if African-American, and degree of kinship, if any. Parental consent forms, filed with marriage applications, were completed by parent or guardian of under-age applicants and contain the name of parent or guardian, place of current residence, residence of child or ward, and signature of parent or guardian. Files may contain both an application and consent form or forms, an application, or a consent form or forms.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year and then by application number within that year. Box 2 has additional files for 1895 that were not able to be included in Box 1.
History of the District court of the city and county of Lancaster : and also sketches of the judges of this court and of the associate and additional law judges of the second judicial district of Pennsylvania
Rebound in one-quarter brown leather and linen with marbled end papers.
Rebound with original letters from the judges, signatures cut from other documents affixed under photrographs of the judges, inerspersed photograms and engravings taken from other texts.
With: Short sketches of the judges of Lancaster County whose portraits have been placed in the county courthouse/ Charles I. Landis. Lancaster, Pa.: The New Era Printing Company, 1913.
Modern entries, in English: being a select collection of pleadings in the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer ... and also all kinds of writs, original and judicial. Translated from the most authentick books, but chiefly from Lutwich's, Saunders's, Ventris's, Salkeld's, and the Modern reports; and from other cases lately tried and adjudged, and wherein writs of error have been brought, and judgments affirmed: together with readings and observations on the several cases in the reports ... To which are added references to all the other entries in the books. With three distinct tables, one of the precedents, the second of the cases abridg'd, and the third of the names of the cases
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (asigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling,
Date of Publication
1734-35.
Physical Description
2 volumes 32 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: By a barrister of the Inner Temple.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 64 and 65 as assigned by Yeates.
Summary
"Translated from the most authentick books, but chiefly from Lutwich's, Saunder's, Ventris's, Salked's, and the Modern reports; and from other cases lately tried and adjudged, and wherein writs of error have been brought, and judgments affirmed: together with readings and observations on the several cases in the reports ... To which are added references to all the other entries in the books. With three distinct tables, one of the precedents, the second of the cases abridg'd, and the third of the names of the cases. By a gentleman of the Inner Temple."