New York (County) selected briefs
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains the surviving briefs (cases and points) of the City Court (until 1883, the Marine Court) of the City of New York, a statutory court of inferior civil jurisdiction within the County of New York and with limited maritime jurisdiction. The briefs were randomly selected from archives which were subsequently destroyed and represent primarily 1872-1881, 1884-1901, and 1904-1907, with some examples 1860-1871 and 1882. A sampling suggests that Jews were involved in 20-30 percent of these cases.
Dates
- Creation: 1860-1907
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
For reference questions, please email: inquiries@cjh.org
Extent
297 Manuscript Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection contains the surviving briefs (cases and points) of the City Court (until 1883, the Marine Court) of the City of New York, a statutory court of inferior civil jurisdiction within the County of New York and with limited maritime jurisdiction. The briefs were randomly selected from archives which were subsequently destroyed and represent primarily 1872-1881, 1884-1901, and 1904-1907, with some examples 1860-1871 and 1882. A sampling suggests that Jews were involved in 20-30 percent of these cases.
Acquisition Note
Gift of the County of New York 1963
Subject
- Marine Court of the City of New York (New York County) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (State)
- New York County (N.Y.)
- United States -- Commerce
- United States -- Economic conditions
- United States -- Social conditions
Topical
- Bankruptcy
- Banks and banking -- United States
- Business
- Debt
- Families
- Fraternal organizations
- Labor
- Labor disputes
- Land tenure -- New York (State)
- Law -- New York (State)
- Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Minorities
- Names, Personal
- Occupations
- Orphans and orphan-asylums
- Poverty
- Railroads
- Transportation
- Wages
- Title
- Guide to the New York (County) selected briefs, 1860-1907 I-49
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by marc2ead_ajhs.xsl
- Date
- © 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- January 2021: EHyman: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
