District Court (Fifth District : Iron County) Civil registers of actions, 1896-1990.

This series contains registers used to record actions taken by the court in civil cases and the associated documents filed in each case. The information recorded for each case may include the names of the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s), the names of the attorneys for plaintiff and defendant, and the name of the judge presiding over the case. The list of actions and documents filed may include petitions, complaints, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings and conclusions, costs, decrees, requests by attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict, motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers and disclaimers.

Civil cases document the legal process and the administration of justice in the settlement of a dispute between parties wherein rights are enforced or protected, or wrongs are prevented or redressed. Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil 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. The clerk is required as documents enter the case file to make a notation that shows "the nature of each paper filed or writ issued and the substance of each order or judgment of the court and of the returns showing execution of process. The notation of an order or judgment shall show the date the notation is made. When trial by jury has been properly demanded or ordered the clerk shall enter the word 'jury' on the page assigned to that action" [UCA 79 (b) (2)].