The New York City Civil Court is the civil branch of the New York City courts system. The court handles all small claims cases (up to $5,000) and all civil cases within the five counties of New York City with a monetary value up to $25,000, as well as residential and commercial landlord-tenant disputes and certain cases transferred from the Supreme Court. Generally speaking the court does not have any equitable jursidiction but can award money damages or possession of property only. There is a branch of the civil court in each of the five boroughs of New York City. The Court of Chancery, London, early 19th century This article is about concept of equity in Anglo-American jurisprudence. ...
Judges of the Civil Court are elected to 10 year terms in either borough wide or district elections. The Civil Court districts are parts of the boroughs and do not cross borough lines. Party leaders frequently designate candidates for the Civil Court Judgeships who then face an open primary against others who qualify for the ballot. The party machine usually manages to elect most of its judicial candidates. Vacancies on the Civil Court are filled by mayoral appointment.
Civil Court Judges can be designated to sit in the city's Criminal Court or as Acting Justices of the New York State Supreme Court. In addition, Civil Court Judges can be assigned to a borough they were not elected in, but they have to live in the borough or district where elected. New York County Supreme Court building at 60 Centre Street, from across Foley Square The Supreme Court of the State of New York is one of several New York State trial courts in which cases originate. ...
A marriage may not take place in NewYork State between an ancestor and descendant, a brother and sister (full or half blood), an uncle and niece or an aunt and nephew, regardless of whether or not these persons are legitimate or illegitimate offspring.
Ministers do not have to be licensed except that before performing marriages in NewYorkCity, the minister must register his or her name and address in the office of the city clerk of the city of NewYork.
You must apply to the borough office of the City Clerk of NewYork in the borough where the license was issued.
NewYork emerged from World War II as the unquestioned leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's emergence as the world's dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (built in Manhattan in 1952) emphasizing its political influence, and the rise of Abstract Expressionism displacing Paris as center of the art world.
NewYorkCity is located at the center of the BosWash megalopolis, 218 miles (350 km) driving distance from Boston and 220 miles (353 km) from Washington, D.C. The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214.4 km²), of which 35.31% is water.
NewYork's water is supplied by the vast Catskill Mountains watershed, one of the largest protected wilderness areas in the United States.
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