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	Record Group Number:	800000
	Series/Collection Number:	.L 319
	Creator:	Florida. Circuit Court (1st Circuit : Santa Rosa County)
	Title, Dates:	Chancery orders, 1892-1926.
	Amount:	1.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Santa Rosa County was created by an act of the Legislative Council on February 18, 1842 (Territorial Laws, 1842, No. 1). It was formed from the eastern section of Escambia County. In 1852, Santa Rosa's boundary with Walton County was altered slightly (Ch. 571, Laws). Some Santa Rosa court records were destroyed by a county courthouse fire in 1869. In 1915, Okaloosa County was created in part from the eastern portion of Santa Rosa County (Ch. 6937, Laws). 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 a microfilm copy of orders handed down by the chancery court in Santa Rosa County, Florida, from 1892 to 1926. Chancery or equity are terms used to describe court proceedings 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 or refrain from doing something. Chancery courts handle divorces, foreclosures of liens, receiverships, partitions, trusts, real property controversies, etc. Books 1 and 2 are indexed.
	Finding Aids:	Microfilm listing available.
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	Reproduction Note:	Microfilm.
	Location of Originals/Duplicates:	Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit, Santa Rosa County. Office of the Clerk. Milton, Florida.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Court records Florida --Santa Rosa County Divorce records Florida --Santa Rosa County Foreclosure Florida Equity Florida Santa Rosa County (Fla.)
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