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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 43
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (6th Circuit : Pasco County)
Title, Dates: Chancery records, 1888-1966.
Amount: 3.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
Medium Included: microfilm
Organization/Arrangement: By record type.
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Biographical/Historical:     Pasco County was established in 1887 by an act of the State Legislature.  It was formed from the southern portion of Hernando County.  The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
Summary:     This series consists of chancery records maintained by the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Pasco County from 1882 to 1966, including  chancery dockets (1911-1966), chancery order books (1882-1966), and an index to chancery orders.  Chancery or equity are terms used to describe a court proceeding pertaining to impartial justice between two parties which claim conflict.  In chancery cases, a person seeks to compel someone to do something or to stop doing or refrain from doing something.  Chancery courts handle divorces, foreclosures of liens, receiverships partitions, trusts, real property controversies, etc.
Finding Aids: Volume listing and microfilm listing available (volumes deaccessioned 06/03/2005).
Additional Physical Form: Scans of microfilm produced by FamilySearch available at the Archives.
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Location of Originals/Duplicates:
Associated Materials: Pasco County Circuit Court, Office of the Clerk and the Pioneer Pasco Historical Museum, both located in Dade City, Florida.
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General Note: ( Volumes deaccessioned - 06/03/2005 )
Electronic Records Access:
Subject Access Fields: Court records Florida --Pasco County
Equity Florida
Divorce records Florida --Pasco County
Foreclosure Florida
Judicial records. aat
Pasco County (Fla.)
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