AGENCY: District Court (Sixth District : Wayne County)

SERIES: 18225
TITLE: Registers of actions
DATES: 1896-1957.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological by initial action in case

DESCRIPTION: Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil, criminal or probate 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. 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, disclaimers, bonds, and inventories.

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 Legal

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

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