N.Y. County Law § 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.