Scope and Contents Suit records document a variety of business, property, and personal disputes between merchants, landowners, other New Orleanians from all walks of life, and individuals from around the world who had dealings in the city or with its citizens. Among the noteworthy individuals represented in the records are Edward Livingston, Bernard Marigny, Daniel Clark, Arsene Lacarriere Latour, Thomas Durnford, Pierre Lafitte, Jean Gravier, Barthelemy Lafon, and Nicholas Girod. There are also suits...

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Civil suits and criminal cases from the Orleans County Court available digitally.

Scope and Contents The minute book comprises manuscript entries, in both English and French, arranged side-by-side on each page. Entries are brief and to the point. An example, from the session of February 23, 1804:#54 Patrick Morgan vs. Claudius Chabot. Ptf appears & represents that when he obtained judgment agst. defendant for the account of his two notes, the Court did not express if any interest was allowed to him; accordingly, it is decreed that the interest on sd. note will be paid to him...

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Minute and docket books, plus suit records and notifications of conviction and acquittal from the Criminal District Court.

Scope and Contents Prior to 1853, when the jurisdiction of the court became exclusively criminal, successions were also filed in First District Court. Those successions (as well as successions filed in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth District Courts), 1846-1853, are indexed. The successions are filed with the microfilmed suit records of this court.Like the other Orleans Parish (civil) district courts, the First District Court (as well as its successor after 1880, the Criminal District Court) was also...

Scope and Contents Included are manuscript records of individual suits filed before the Court. Each suit record includes all or some of the following documents: petitions, citations, orders, answers, judgments, and exhibits (such as transcriptions of testimony, letters, inventories, copies of other documents, etc.). Existing inventories of these records suggest that approximately 15% are missing. The Genealogical Society of Utah microfilmed the "genealogically significant" suit records, as well as the minute...

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Reports, status of indictments, and identification cards for members of the Grand Jury. The member ids have been digitized.

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Minute books, general dockets, and suit records from the Orleans Parish 2nd City Criminal Court.

Scope and Contents The court heard criminal cases from docket numbers 1 to 555. Docket numbers 3-499 are extant; of those, approximately 16% are missing. (It is possible that a few of these records may be filed with the civil suit series of this court). The cases are limited to those filed in the 6th and 7th Municipal Districts and do not include cases heard in Jefferson, St. Bernard, or Plaquemines Parishes.The most common charges were: Assault or assault and battery --...

Scope and Contents The Superior Court suit records comprise ca. 3500 cases, many of which involve insolvency proceedings. Included are records from the Court's proceedings in New Orleans only. None of the circuit records are represented in this series. Although the final disposition of the suit is generally given, the judges' reasons for judgment are not. Suit records alone are extant; no supporting documentation, such as docket books or minute books, has survived. Approximately 325 Superior Court suits are...

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The records are arranged in series as follows, all of which are records of the regular business of the court:

• case records
• minute books
• general dockets