Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-02-14
AN ACT

! To fix permanently the times and manner Of
holding the courts of Common Pleas, and
| District Court, in Hamilton county, and to
| provide for the organization and practice
thereof
Sec. l. Be it enacted By tie GeaeraZ As
sena6Ey of the State of Ohio, That the first
term of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for :he first District, shall commence on the
second Monday of February, eighteen hun
dred and fifty two, and that the regular terms
thereof. shall thereafter commence on the FIRST
Monday in May, the first Monday in October.
and the FIRST Monday 10 January, in each year,
provided, however, that the Judges of said
Court may hold special terms thereof when
ever they shall desm it necessary.
Sec. .. That the Judges of the said Court
may sit separately or otherwise, as they shall
at any time deem it expedient; and may pres
cribe the mode of keeping and authcnticating
the minutes Of proceedings had before them,
or any of them; and may, at the beginning of
each term, and at all times thereafter, when
necessary. classify and distribute among them
selves, for trial and determination the business
pending in said court, as they shall deem most
convenient to the public interests; and may
from time to time, adopt and publish rules OF
practice, regulating the dccketing of causes,
and motions the return of process the time
and manner of fling pleadings, the entering
and opening of defaults, the setting of causes
and matters for trial. or hearing, and also such
other matters Of practice as may be necessary
for the advancement of justice, not inconsist-
/ ent with the laws of this State, prevention oil
delay. causing all such rules to be entered on
their journals.
Sec 3. That two terms of the District court
shnll be held in said district in each year, com.
menOing on the first Monday in April, and the
first Monday of September respectively; and
that the Judges thereof shall have such pow
ers to adopt and publish rules of practice fol
the said court, as are conferred by the second
section of this act upon the Judges of the
Court of Common Please; provided, however
that they shall conform as near as may be, tc
such rules Of practice as may from time tc
time be adopted by the Judges of the Su
preme Court
Sec. 4. That the term Of February, eight
cen hundred and fifty two. of the Court o.
Common Pleas, as now established by law, be
and the same is hereby abolished; and thai
all process, mesne and final, all recegnizances
and all business of whatever kind, not dispos
ed of previously thereto, shall be returnable
and continued tothe February term of the
Court of Conmon Pleas as fixed by this act
/ Sec. 5. That in all cases, where the record
of proceedings had in the court of Common
Pleas prior to the second Monday in February
eighteen hundred and fifty two, shall not or
or before that time have been fully complet,
ed, and signed, as required by law, the same
shall be made up BY the Clerk of the said
Court for the time being, with all convenient
dispatch, and be signed by any one of the
Judges for the time being, of the Court oi
Common Pleas.
Sec, 6. That all cases pending in the Supe
rior Court of Cincinnati, in which the Judge
thereof has been interested as counsel, or 9th
erwise, the faet being suggested of record in
the said Court, shall, together with the files oI
papers and copies of all orders made therein
be certified and removed into the court ei
Common Pleas, and be there disposed OF, as il
originally commenced therein.
Sec T. That any authority conferred upon
the President Judge of the Court of Common
| Pleas in the county of Hamilton, as heretofore
organized by any existing laws not inconsistent
with the constitution of this State, may be ex-
ercised by any one of the Judges of the court
of Common Please, in and for the said first
District, as now constituted.
JAMES G. JOHNSON,
.. Speaker House of Representatives.
W. MEDILL,
President of the Senate.
| Jan. %, 1852. s