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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 238
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (14th Circuit : Bay County)
Title, Dates: Chancery order books, 1913-1924.
Amount: 1.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     Bay County was created by an act (ch. 6505, Laws) of the State Legislature on April 14, 1913.  Bay was created from parts of Calhoun and Washington counties.  The judges of the Circuit Court presided over matters of probate and chancery (or equity).
Summary:     The series consists of a microfilm copy of the chancery orders issued by the judge of the Circuit Court of Bay County from 1913 to 1924.  Chancery or equity are terms used to describe one type of court proceedings pertaining to impartial justice between two parties which claims 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, and real property controversies, etc.  Volume A (1913-1919) contains an index at the beginning of the volume, Volume B (1919-1924) is not indexed.
Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Circuit Court, 14th Judicial Circuit, Bay County.  Office of the Clerk, Panama City, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Court records Florida --Bay County
Bay County (Fla.)
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