The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-26
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AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE AND THE DIS
PA7UH Or BUSINESS s-..ssAIss- oeS ..s.s %
NAV ORLEANS.
SECTION l. BE IL enacted blythe Senate and House
Of Representatives. of he State Of Louisiana In
General Assembly cOnUened That except the
First and Second District Couits, the district
courts of New Orleans shall be opened at ten
O'Clock, A. N, and shall remain open until three
O'Clock. P NJ, on all legal days except from Christ
mas TO the second OF January, from the first Mon.
day Of November to the fourth of July; ProCided,
That when all the business of the day is concluded
said courts may adjourn before three o'clock.
SEC. 2. Bedfurfter enacted, etc., That six cases
and no more, except promissory note cases, shall
be fixed for each day. and no case not taken up ia
'ts turn shall be continued, nor witnesses dis
charged by the Judge. before three o'clock.
SEC. 3. BE 4 further enacted. etc., That no
case shall be continued over to particular day in
preference to cases fixed for that day, but il not
concluded on the day of trial it shall be continued
in its order to the first day which there are no
cases fixed. Cases may be fixed for or continued
to any dsy-to be taken mp after the cases fixed
Tor that day. Jury cases shall not be governed by
this section.
SEC. 4. Be Il further enacted, etc., That an cases
Wnen continued shalt be pfuccd OF tho foot Of tho
docket, exceptsuch as may not be reached or con.
cluded on the day fixed for trial for want Of time.
Cases not reached or concluded shall be refxed
for the first day or days upon which no cases are
fixed for trial, and in their order
SEC. 8. BE uttutteT' enacted, ETC., That when a
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upon suggesting to the judge that he fears that he
may be deprived of the testimony of his witnesses
by delay, dea'b, or other accident, TO obtain an
order either in open court or in chamber, to have
the testimony OF said witnesses reduced to writing
by the clerk after notice to the opposite party or
his attorney, TeserviDg TO each party the right TO
except To any questions or answers, and SUCH ex.
ceptions shall be written out with the testimony
and inclosed 10 brackets, and the testimony and
exceptions thus taken shall De arranged and used
on the trial. .... Il "---
SEC. 6. Be Il further enacted. ETC., That iudges
shall not allow counsel to consume time unneces.
sarily when the question is plain and they are sat.
authority.
SEC. Z. Be Il .fiu1her enacted. etc., That cases
shall be tried in their order; there shall be no
preference cases. except State and city cases,
prUmissofy note cases and injunction cases against
executory process and witness of feri fdcids,
which shall be placed as soon as they are at issue
on one Trial or called docket to be called the sum.
mary docket, and shall be called in their order;
all other cases shall be placed as soon as at issue
on another trial or call docket, 10 be called the
ordinary docket and shall be called in their order
BRedN6P Snefhaf iAtgd az che FOOT Of The 3octst
sno az each case Is called and fixed the clerK shall
oeio5e calling the next case, announce IN an audi
PIC voice We day on which il is fixed for trial and
AZ the next calling shall commence with the ns,t
case on the docket following that last called IN
ne pfeVeus calling. Clerk shall not fix. nor re.
x cases without calling them in a loud and audi |
~, ne voice, and shall Tx those only which he il
laa. 20 Ok oy counsel present except those
ares winch have been already called and fixed. |
'ut which for want Of time, we're not reached or |
concluded, which cases stall be reassivned "a
'bove, provided without being again called all
asses called and not fixed shall be placed imme |
iaieIy at the foot Of the docket in the order in
y lch they stood before and shall be again called
men lhey are reached, and not before Anv
ieik or deputy clerk who shall violate the prc.
isous OF this act shall be deemed guilty Of ms.
emeanor, and she'll on conviction by A rnIe taken
airy one interested before the Judge of the
curt ne hned fifty dollars for the first ofense. 10
e PAID to the plaintiff in rule. and for the second
idge. 0' W '"e
(Signed) CHAs. w Iowv,
sPeaEer OF the House of Representatives
!olRneol OSCAR j. Dunn
le ntenant Governor and President of the Senate
approved September 3, 1868.
(oieneoj H. G.. WARMorH
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy
Csc. E. BOvEE,
Secretary Of State |