New York Laws
Article 24 - Provisions Applicable to New York City
922 - Judgment Docket in Office of County Clerk of New York County.

§ 922. Judgment docket in office of county clerk of New York county.
1. The judgment dockets shall be kept by the county clerk of New York
county in two separate sets of books, one set to be designated and used
for judgments against individuals including all individual members of a
copartnership or of a firm doing business under a firm name or style and
the other set to be designated and used for judgments against
corporations including joint stock companies, copartnerships or firm
names or styles under which businesses are conducted; and each set of
such judgment dockets must have a separate volume or volumes for each
letter of the alphabet and each judgment docket book shall have its
letters, and the year or years of its entries plainly marked on its back
and cover and on every page.

2. Each volume of the judgment dockets for judgments against
individuals shall contain the names of those judgment debtors whose last
names begin with the letter marked on its cover. Each such volume shall
also have an alphabetical marginal page index for a further alphabetical
breakdown of the names included therein. The marginal page index may
show each letter of the alphabet in order and, in such event, a page of
such judgment docket may contain the names of those judgment debtors
whose first names begin with the letter or whose first initial is the
letter marked on the marginal index for that page; and there shall be at
the back of each of such volumes blank pages not indexed which shall
contain the names of those judgment debtors whose first names or
initials are stated in the title of the action to be unknown or
fictitious.

3. Each volume of the judgment dockets for judgments against
corporations shall contain the names of those judgment debtors the first
letter or initial of whose names as it appears, following the prefixed
articles "A", "An" or "The", is the letter marked on its cover. Each
such volume may have an alphabetical marginal page index for a further
alphabetical breakdown of the names included therein.

4. The number of the action and the year in which it was begun shall
be entered as part of the entry of every judgment.

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