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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 370
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (8th Circuit : Union County)
Title, Dates: Chancery records, 1921-1934.
Amount: 1.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     Union County was created by an act of the State Legislature in 1921 (Ch. 8516, Laws).  Union County was formed from the western portion of Bradford County.  The Clerk of the Court in each county serves as the official custodian of the record.
Summary:     This series consists of the microfilmed chancery records of Union County, beginning in 1921.  This series is not indexed.
    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.  The chancery files in this series primarily concern foreclosures, trusts, and real property controversies.
Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Circuit Court, Eighth Judicial Circuit, Union County.  Office of the Clerk.  Lake Butler, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Court records Florida  --Union County.
Foreclosure Florida
Equity Florida
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Union County (Fla.)
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