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Subject:	Sheriff's Jury in NYS?
From:	Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:50:01 -0400
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I have a legal query relating specifically to New York State, but since
Virginians seem to know everything, I'd like to post it here as well.  I
posted this already to the NY-HIST list.

My wife is completing a book on the well-known lunacy case of John
Armstrong Chanler (aka John Armstrong Chaloner).  A native of NY, Chanler
married the fiery author Amélie Rives of Albemarle County in 1888.

In 1899 a Sheriff's Jury in New York declared Chanler mentally
incompetent, and removed his property from his control, in a proceeding
under the aegis of the New York Supreme Court. The question is: What is a
"Sheriff's Jury"?  Chanler had no attorney representing him at the
hearing.  Any help will be greatly  appreciated.

 Henry Wiencek

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