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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Modus intrandi placita generalia : the entring clerk's introduction : being a collection of such precedents of declarations, and other pleadings, with process as well mesn as judicial, as are generally used in every days practice : with notes and observations thereupon composed, for the benefit of the students of the common law of England, as also of the attorneys, entring clerks, and sollicitors of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, acquainting them with the rudiments of clerkship, and such general pleadings and process as are used at this day in the courts of record at Westminster
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
The third edition, with considerable corrections and amendments throughout the whole book, with the addition of the true directions fo [sic] writs, according to the style of the latest grants to each corporation of England.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for J. Walthoe ...,
Date of Publication
1702-1703.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 2 has no ed. statement.
Vol. 1: [24], 406, [34] p.; v. 2: [8], 315, [15] p.
Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck owner.
Book numbers 1024 and 1025 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
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.