Download or read book Case Files of the Vermont Court of Chancery Meeting in Caledonia County written by Vermont. Court of Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case files include all of the documents generated during the process of a chancery court trial, and may be extensive, minimal or nonexistent for any given case. Most documents are related to real estate foreclosures, and include a bill of foreclosure, a master's report that calculates the amount owed on the mortgage, and a decree of foreclosure if the plaintiff wins the case. Supporting documents often include mortgages, deeds, promissory notes and receipts. Subpoenas, affidavits, depositions, motions, pleas, bills of costs, and testimony transcripts may also be included. Cases involving requests for injunctions include a bill of complaint and the defendant's answer to the bill. There may also be findings of fact and temporary or permanent injunctions. A third category of chancery case files includes documents related to dissolving business partnerships and corporations and placing businesses in receivership. Chancery case files are arranged in docket order for each court term. Until 1895 a case which continued over several court terms was assigned a different docket number for each term, but should be filed under the docket number assigned for the term in which the case ended. After 1895 each case kept the same case number from term to term. Note that pre-1840 chancery court case files are included with supreme court case files (see Series SUPR-CA-003), since chancery court was held by the supreme court during that period.