New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-22

at pleasure.
ART. IS. The supreme court shall hold its
sessions in the city of New Orleans from
the first Monday in the month of November
to tine end Of the month of May. The gen.
eral assembly shall have power to fix the
sessions elsewhere during the rest of the
year; until otherwise provided, the sessions
shall be held as heretofore.
ART. Il. Tie supreme court. and each Of
the judges thereof, shall have power to issue
writs of habeas corpus at the instance of
persons in actual custody in cases when
they may have appellate Jurisdiction.
ART. IS. No Judgment shall be rendered
by the supreme court without concur
renee of u majority composing the court.
Whenever the majority can not concur in
consequence of the recusation of any mem
Der of the court, the judges not recused
shall have power to call upon any Judge or
judges of the district courts, whose duty it
shall be when so called upon to preside in
the place Of the judge or judges recused,
and to aid in determining the case.
ART. 10. All judges, by virtue of their
office, shall be conservators of the peace
throughout the state. The style of all pro.
cess shall be "The state of louisiana" All
prosecutions shall be carried on in the name
and by the authority of the state of Louisi-
ana, and conclude against the peace and
dignity of the same"
ART. so. The judges of all courts when
ever practicable shall refer to the law in
virtue of which every defnitive Judgment is
rendered; but in all cases they shall adduce
the reasons on which their judgment is
founded.
ART. 81. The judges of all courts shall be
liable to impeachment for crimes and mis-
demeanors. For any reasonable cause the
governor shall remove any of them, on the
address of two-thirds of the members elected
to each house of the general assembly. In
every such case the cause or causes for
which such removal may be required shall
be stated at length in the address, and ia
serted in the journal of each house.
ART. 50. No duties or functions shall ever
be attached by law to the supreme or dis
trict courts, or the several judges thereof,
but such as are judicial; and the said Judges
are prohibited from receiving any fees of
office, or other compensation than their
salaries, for any official duties performed by
them.
ART. So. The general assembly shall
divide the state into judicial districts, which
shall remain unchanged for four years,
and for each district court one Judge,
learned in the law, shall be elected for
each district, by plurality of the
qualified electors thereof. For each
district there shall be one district
court, except in the parish of Orleans,
in which the general assembly may estab-
fish as many district courts as the public
interests may require. Until otherwise pro.
vided there shall be seven district courts for
the parish of Orleans, with the following
original jurisdictions: The first, exclusive
criminal jurisdiction; the second, exclusive
probate jurisdiction; the third, exclusive
Jurisdiction Of appeals from justices of the
peace; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh
district courts, exclusive jurisdiction in all
civil cases, except probate, when the sum in
contest is above one hundred dollars, exclu-
sive Of interest. These seven courts shall
have such further Jurisdiction, not incon.
sistent herewith as shall be conferred by
law.
The number of districts in the state shall
not be less than twelve nor more than
twenty. The clerks of the district courts
shall be elected by the qualified electors OF
their respective parishes, and shall hold
their Office for four years.
ART. 81. Each of said judges shall receive
salary to be fixed by law, which shall
not be increased or diminished during
his term of Office, and shall never be less
than five thousand dollars. He must be
citizen of the United States, over the age of
twenty-five years, and have resided in the
state and practiced law therein for the
space of. two years next preceding his
election. The Judges of the district courts
shall hold their office for the term of four
years.
ART. IS. The district courts shall have
original jurisdiction in all civil cases when
the amount in dispute exceeds i've hundred
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cases INSTRUMENTATION shall oe unlimited.
They shall have appellate Jurisdiction in
civil ordinary suits, when the amount in
dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, ex.
elusive of interest. 3aj H
ART, Sc. For each parish court, oneiudge
shall be elected by the qualified electors Of
the parish. He shall hold his Office for the
term Of two years. He shall receive a
salary and fees, to be provided by law !.
Until otherwise provided, each parish Judge
shall receive salary Of one Thousand two
hundred dollars per annum, and such fees
as are established by law for clerks Of dis
trict courts. He shall be a citizen Of the
United States and of this state. M
ART. 81. The parish courts shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the justices of
the peace in all cases when the amount in
controversy is more than twenty-five dol
lars, and less than one hundred dollars, ex-
elusive of interest. They shall have ex-
elusive original jurisdiction in ordinary
suits, in all cases when the amount in dis
pute exceeds one hundred dollars and does
not exceed five hundred dollars, subject to
an appeal to the district court in all cases
when the amount in eontestation exceeds
one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest.
Allsuceessions shall be opened and settled
in the parish courts; and all suits in which
a succession IS either plaintiff or defend
ant may be brought either in the parishlor
district court, according to the amount In