Series 17825
District Court (Fourth District) Civil and criminal registers of actions, 1878-1896.
5 microfilm reels
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
See history of the records' creator.
Summary of Records
Scope and Content
Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil or criminal action are filed together by the court clerk and collectively these documents constitute the case file. As these records or actions are filed, the clerk enters them in the registers which comprise this series. Criminal registers became a separate series in 1889. The Fourth District Court was created in 1892 from the Northern Division of the First District Court; the Northern Division included Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, and Weber Counties. Court normally convened in Ogden, Weber County. Until 1880, these counties were part of the Third District Court. The registers were retained as they transferred from district to district.
A register of actions may contain the following entries for each case: name of the attorney for plaintiff and defendant, name of the judge presiding over the case, petitions, complaints, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings andconclusions, costs, decrees, requests by attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict, motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers, and disclaimers.
Research Note
Researchers should consult this series to ensure finding all the actions which occurred in a case. They may also want to check records of all the district courts to which the counties belonged over time.
Arrangement
Numerical by case number, thereunder chronological.
Additional Forms
This series is available on microfilm.
Access Restrictions
This series is classified as Public.
Use Restrictions
These records are available for reproduction and use.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Acquisition Information
These records were acquired from the creating agency through established retention schedules.
Processing Information
Registers of Actions were first scheduled in 1983 as permanent records. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in June 2000 and updated in 2002.
Other Finding Aids
Indexes: Series 21933, Civil Case Indexes, 1878-1916, provides access to this series. Indexes: Series 17463, Criminal Case Indexes, 1879-1947, provides access to this series.
Related Material
Northern division civil and criminal case files from the District Court (First District), Series 1529, contain the entire case file listed in these registers.
Criminal case files from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 1629, contain the entire case file for later criminal cases listed in these registers.
Plaintiff's index from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 1666, provide an alternate way to obtain a desired case number
Minute books from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 5062, document the proceedings of each case.
Criminal case files from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 6954, contain register entries and alphabetical indices which can be used to identify the case file numbers needed to access this series for criminal cases between 1896 and 1990.
Criminal registers of actions from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 17462, contain copies of pages pulled from this series.
Criminal case indexes from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 17463, facilitate access to this series.
Plaintiff index from the District Court (First District), Series 21018, also cover the later territorial period.
Civil case indexes from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 21933, facilitate access to this series.
Container List
Reel | Volume | Description |
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1 | A | 1-47; Dec 9, 1878-Feb 12, 1880 |
2 | A | 1-499; Mar 11, 1880-Mar 8, 1884 |
2 | B | 500-1099; Mar 8, 1884-Jan 15, 1887 |
2 | C | 1100-1999; Jan 17, 1887-Jan 19, 1889 |
3 | D | 2000-3929; Jan 19, 1889-May 31, 1892 |
4 | E | 3930-4999; Jun 1, 1892-Feb 12, 1894 |
5 | F | 5000-5928; Feb 12, 1894-Jan 3, 1896 |