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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 273
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit : Gadsden County)
Title, Dates: Chancery orders, 1859-1926.
Amount: 1.00 microfilm reel 35 mm
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Biographical/Historical:     Gadsden County was created by an act of the Legislative Council on June 24, 1823.  Originally part of Jackson County it encompassed "all that part of the Territory east of the Apalachicola and West of the Suwanee and Alapaha rivers."  The county boundaries were changed several times until 1909.  The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.  Many of the earliest records of Gadsden County were destroyed when the courthouse burned in November, 1849.
Summary:     The series consists of a microfilmed copy of Chancery Court Orders for Gadsden County, Florida from 1859 to 1926. Chancery, or equity, are terms used to describe a type of court proceeding pertaining to impartial justice between two parties in conflict.  In chancery cases a party seeks to compel another to do, or to stop doing, or to refrain from doing something.  Chancery courts handle divorces, foreclosures of liens, receiverships, partitions, trusts, and real property controversies, etc..
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Subject Access Fields: Equity Florida
Gadsden County (Fla.)
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