Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
California Superior Court (Sacramento County) records
CNTY0016
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Center for Sacramento History
Title: California Superior Court (Sacramento County) records
creator:
California. Superior Court (Sacramento County)
Identifier/Call Number: CNTY0016
Physical Description:
1,290 Linear Feet
Physical Description:
169 Volumes
Physical Description:
1,125 Boxes
Date (inclusive): ca. 1879-1970
Abstract: The collection contains records created by the Sacramento County Superior Court from 1879 through circa 1970. The largest
part of the collection consists of records related to civil and criminal cases, including case files, registers of action,
judgments, and minutes. The collection also contains Juvenile Court minutes, juvenile commitments and claims, insane commitments
and discharges, court calendars and journals, and other records. The Superior Court was created in 1880 by provisions of the
1879 State Constitution. This court assumed the functions previously carried out by the District, Sessions, County, and Probate
Courts. Cases are handled by one of four departments: criminal, civil, probate, and juvenile. Each county in California has
its own Superior Court.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English
- Processed by:
- Kim Hayden
- Date Completed:
- January 2020
- Encoded by:
- Kim Hayden
Collection is open for research use, except Series 3 (Juvenile records) and Series 4 (Insane commitment records), which are
closed to access and research per California Welfare and Institution Code. Material in those series can only be accessed by
court order.
All requests to publish or quote from private manuscripts held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], California Superior Court (Sacramento County) records,
CNTY0016, Center for Sacramento History.
The collection was acquired from Sacramento County in 1976 (accession numbers 1976/005 and 1976/076) and 1978 (accession number
1978/93), and from the California State Archives in 1980 (accession numbers 1980/132).
Biography / Administrative History
The Superior Court was created in 1880 by provisions of the 1879 State Constitution. This court assumed the functions previously
carried out by the District, Sessions, County, and Probate Courts. Cases are handled by one of four departments: criminal,
civil, probate, and juvenile. Each county in California has its own Superior Court.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains records created by the Sacramento County Superior Court from 1879 through circa 1970. The largest
part of the collection consists of records related to civil and criminal cases, including case files, registers of action,
judgments, and minutes. The collection also contains Juvenile Court minutes, juvenile commitments and claims, insane commitments
and discharges, court calendars and journals, and other records.
CSH has separate finding aids and collections for Superior Court naturalization records, Alien Land Law case files, and probate
records. For naturalization records, see CNTY0008. For Alien Land Law case files, see CNTY0015. For probate records, see CNTY0006.
The collection is arranged into 6 series:
Series 1. Civil case records, 1880-1965
Series 2. Criminal case records, 1879-1968
Series 3. Juvenile records, 1903-1959
Series 4. Insane commitment records, 1881-1956, ca. 1970
Series 5. Court calendars, journals, and daybooks, 1874-1932
Series 6. Other court records, 1880-1968
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Court records--California--Sacramento County
Courts--Sacramento County (Calif.)--Cases
Sacramento County (Calif.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
California. Superior Court (Sacramento County)