Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Jackson County Records Inventory
Judgment and Execution Records
1853-1930
Series records official decisions by the court and subsequent instructions to the sheriff to recover costs and awards related to debt, divorce, and other civil cases. The record serves as the official notice of the existence of a lien. Information includes title and case number; names of plaintiff, creditor, defendant, debtor, and attorney; amount of judgment; description of property levied on; writ of execution; disposition of case; decisions on appeals; dates docketed and satisfied; and volume and page numbers where recorded. Records may include judgment dockets, execution dockets, and fee books. Judgment and execution records have been inventoried through 1920.
Records at the Jackson County Justice Building Basement, Court
Archives:
Execution Docket [with index], vol. 4, 1879-1916 (1
volume);
Index to Circuit Judgment Docket [to vol. 1-2], n.d.
(1 volume);
[Index to Execution Docket], ca. 1897 (1 reel of
microfilm);
[Index to Judgment Lien Docket], 1875-1889 (1 reel of
microfilm);
[Judgment Lien Docket], 1902 (1 reel of microfilm);
Judgement Lien Docket [County Court], 1854-1901 (1 reel of
microfilm);
[Ledger Docket-Circuit Court-includes execution
information], 1863-1879 (1 reel of microfilm).
Records at Record Masters of Southern Oregon:
[Foreclosure Sale Records-includes
executions-81A.137, Box 7349], 1854-1930 (1 cu.ft.).
Records at the Jackson County Genealogy Library Building, Library:
Judgment Lien Docket [Circuit Court-with index],
1854-1901 (1 volume);
Ledger [Judgment and Execution Docket-includes circuit,
county, and justice courts], 1863-1879 (1 volume).
Records at the Jackson County Genealogy Library Building, Second Floor
Storage Room:
Index to Judgment Lien Docket, ca.1875-1906 (1 volume).
Records at the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Research Library:
Execution Docket [MS 952], 1853-1859 (1 volume);
Execution Docket [MS 954], 1861-1863 (1 volume).