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Court Records
Judiciary is one of the most important
pillars on which our democratic society stands. It acts as
a guardian and protector of the democratic set up .courts
are the main focal point of the judiciary system. It is
these courts where a person can seek justice from the
system, justice that has been denied to him by some reason
or other. Each and every proceedings of the court
including judgments, name of the judge the advocate and
the accused are always been put into its database. Each
and every court keeps its own data base of records most
part of which has been kept open for public viewing.
Different types of resources that have been made available
by court records include
Case Files a
case file includes all the documents that are relevant to
a particular case. These include evidence, testimony,
correspondence, depositions, and other documents. Finding
a case file normally requires obtaining a case file number
from the index, docket, or minutes of the case.
Dockets once
the court decides on hearing a particular case, it is
placed on the court docket until the stipulated time of
trial. Typically, an entry on the docket includes the
plaintiff and defendant for each case, the date of the
case's hearing, the case's file number, and the titles of
all documents relevant to the case. Dockets are normally
of three type’s criminal, civil or equity.
Minutes These
are records, compiled by the clerk of the court.it briefly
record all actions of the court on a single day. minutes
are particularly useful when indexes and dockets cannot be
located, they usually list the plaintiff and defendant in
the case and state the action taken. They are normally
organized chronologically but are rarely indexed.
Orders The
recorded orders of the court can be found in almost every
court in the country. They generally present a concise
summary of the case and state the judgment to be carried
out. It is worth noting that appointments of guardians,
memorials, naturalizations, and re-recordings of deeds,
especially before this century, are often recorded in the
order books. In addition, a variety of other
administrative data from the locality was also recorded
frequently.
Besides this there are certain records that
are maintained by the courts which are not related to any
case but come under the purview of court records. This
kind of court records include.
• Birth records
Normally birth records of all individuals are kept in the
form of birth certificates. These certificates are
normally stored in governmental records and are provided
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parents or the hospital concerned.
These certificates are normally prepared by the
doctors who were looking after the new borns mother at
the time of child birth. The official birth records
are usually stored at a government record office. In
Canada and the United States of America, it is stored
with the local courts where the child has been born.
• Death records
Death records are recorded at the state level in a
central repository which is usually the bureau of
vital statistics. However maintaining vital death
record was not a compulsion and rules varied from
state to state. Some states have excellent indexes to
many of these records and are very helpful in securing
certified copies of the certificates. Others, such as
New York, have strict always prohibiting access to the
records within a period of about 75 years.
• Divorce records
Just as the government maintains records of all births
and marriages divorces are also recorded by the
courts. These institutes maintain details of all
divorce cases .
It can also be available from the internet by the
payment of a small amount of processing fees. Normally
you need to provide some basic information whose
records you want to search. The more information you
provide the more comprehensive your results will be.
• Naturalization records
these records contain all information about immigrants
seeking citizenship in that particular country. Each
record usually contains a petition for citizenship
with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS),
a petition with the local court clerk, and a
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