AGENCY: Logan (Utah). Municipal Court

SERIES: 5386
TITLE: Criminal registers of actions
DATES: 1919-1980.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by case number.

DESCRIPTION: This series documents the individual criminal cases tried by the Logan City Court. Actions taken in each case are recorded on separate documents and then filed together to become the case file. As these documents enter the case file they are recorded in the Criminal Registers of Actions.

Registers function as a chronological list of the actions taken in each criminal cases. A register of actions can contain the following: attorney for plaintiff and defendant, name of the judge presiding over the case, petitions, complaint, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings and conclusions, costs, decrees, requests by the attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict, motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers, and disclaimers.

This series remains valuable for research purposes since all items that enter a case file are recorded by date received.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical

This disposition is based on the legal and historical value of court registers of action. Register of actions function as a chronological list of papers filed and fees paid which relate to individual actions.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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