AGENCY: District Court (Fourth District)
SERIES: 17825
TITLE: Civil and criminal registers of actions
DATES: 1878-1896.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by case number, thereunder chronological.
DESCRIPTION: Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil or criminal action are filed together by the court clerk and collectively these documents constitute the case file. As these records or actions are filed, the clerk enters them in the registers which comprise this series. Criminal registers became a separate series in 1889. The Fourth District Court was created in 1892 from the Northern Division of the First District Court; the Northern Division included Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, and Weber Counties. Court normally convened in Ogden, Weber County. Until 1880, these counties were part of the Third District Court. The registers were retained as they transferred from district to district.
A register of actions may contain the following entries for each case: name of the attorney for plaintiff and defendant, name of the judge presiding over the case, petitions, complaints, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings and conclusions, costs, decrees, requests by attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict, motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers, and disclaimers.
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
These records are in Archives' permanent custody.
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in Office permanently after being microfilmed.
Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Administrative Historical
This disposition is based on the legal and historical value of the REGISTERS OF ACTIONS. The court clerk is required by law [UCA X, (79) (a)] to keep a register of actions that functions as a chronological list of papers filed and fees paid which relate to individual civil actions.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public