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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Credit
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Officina brevium : select and approved forms of judicial writs, and other process, with their retorns and entries in the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster : as also special pleadings to writs of scire facias
Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster
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
as kept by the Rev. William Douglas from 1750 to 1797; an index of Goochland wills; notes on the French-Huguenot refugees who lived in Manakin-town. Transcribed and edited by W. Mac Jones.
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.
