§ 921 — Current minute books and indices in office of county clerk of New York county

§ 921. Current minute books and indices in office of county clerk of\nNew York county. 1. The county clerk of New York county must keep books\nto be known as current minute books. Each half page of space in each\nbook, or one-third page of space in each book if it is deemed more\npracticable to subdivide each page in thirds, shall be consecutively\nnumbered for each year and shall be devoted to one action or proceeding.\nOn a half page or one-third page so numbered the clerk shall enter the\ntitle of the action or proceeding having the same number for that year,\nwith the names of the first plaintiff or party and the first defendant\nor party and the names of the attorneys in full, and in chronological\norder a brief description of each paper as it is filed, together with\nthe date of filing thereof, also the verdict, report or decision, if\nany, rendered in the action as of the date of the rendering thereof,\nalso all orders and judgments in the action. All preliminary,\ninterlocutory and provisional proceedings, and proceedings supplementary\nto judgment or execution, shall be entered on the same half page or\none-third page of the minute book as the action out of which they arise,\nor to which they relate, except in actions where the entries are so\nvoluminous as to require one or more additional half pages or one-third\npages of space, in which case the entries shall be continued under the\nsame number upon other pages of that or a subsequent minute book,\nreference thereto being entered at the end of the first and all\nadditional half pages or one-third pages.\n 2. There shall be kept an alphabetical index of all the actions or\nproceedings entered in such current minute books during any year, which\nindex shall consist of two sets of separate volumes, one set to be\ndesignated and used for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or\nplaintiffs are individuals, including all individual members of a\ncopartnership or of a firm doing business under a firm name or style as\nstated in the title of the action, and the other set to be designated\nand used for indexing actions wherein the plaintiff or plaintiffs are\ncorporations, a joint stock company, a copartnership or a firm name or\nstyle under which a person or persons are doing business. Each of such\nsets of index books shall have a separate volume or volumes for each\nletter of the alphabet, except that the county clerk may, in his\ndiscretion, include more than one letter in a volume when convenience\nwill be served, and a suitable marginal page index, and shall have the\ndesignation of its set of books, its letter and the year or years of its\nentries plainly marked on its back and cover. And all such actions or\nproceedings shall be indexed in such index volumes according to all the\nnames of the plaintiffs of each title, as contained in the first paper\nfiled therein, in the same manner as it is provided in section nine\nhundred twenty-two of this chapter that judgment debtors shall be\ndocketed in the judgment docket books, and in every case the index\nnumber of the action shall be entered opposite the name indexed.\n 3. Whenever an action is transferred to another court, or the place of\ntrial changed, the clerk to whom the papers in such actions are\ndelivered shall bind them and file them together and shall enter in the\ncurrent minute book in which he makes entries an entry of the filing\nthereof, and shall continue to make subsequent entries therein in the\nsame manner as if the papers had originally been filed with him.\n