Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-06
PUBLIC ACTS.
PASSED MAY SESSION, 1870.
cHApTER Lxxxy


 CHAPTER LxXxv. v An aa in addition to acts creating and establish ing Courts of Common Pleas. Be t enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- @ senfMkiyee,in General Assembly convened:
 Sec. 1. Writs of error from judg ments of jus ces of the peace, shall be brought exclusively to the said court in the county in which such judge from or1 the n time % of rendering ref such judg ment.
 Sec. q. All writs and processes returnaDle to akhe Court of Common Pleas, shall be served at IBast twelve days inclusive before the sitting of Sec. 8. Whenever any judge of the Court of Common Pleas shall be legally disqualified to act as judge in an any judge of said court shall be un- able able to sit upon any case, either through sicanees, absence or any other cause, or whenev- CT any iuege of said court shall have any matter depending before him which for any reason he may consider it improper that he should try or dispose of then said judge of said court shall have power 10 cal in some other judge of the Court of Common Pleas to hear and determine such case of fhe Court of Common Pleas shall be called to act as judge as aforesaid, then said judge shall be entitled to have his expenses paid him by the sheri of the county in which he shail SO act, and @a;d eheFiff shall be entitled to have the same taxed in the bills of the court,
 Gec. 4 Section one hundred and thirty-one, chapter K Title first of the revised Statutes of this State is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following:-"Whenever in the couree of any year in any town all the names shall have been drawn from said box as aforesaid,
 
 shall not have arrived, then it shall be the duty of the town clerk of said town, to replace all said names in said box in the same manner as provided fn section one hundred and twenty-nine. chapter nine. title first of said Revised Statute, so that the eaid constable may at all times find names in said box from which to draw the number that his warrant may direct"
 Sec. s Section sixty, chapter four, title thirteen of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended, by ad ding at the end theref the following: ssprovided, however, that in those counties in which Court hell ct ir,oRi shall order such accused person to become bound as aforesaid to the next term of the Court of Com mon Pleas in said county"
 Sec. G. The judge of the Court of Common Pleas in any county may, on motion, grant and en- force wrts of injunction according to the of proceedings in Courts of Equity, m all cases with in the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of the Court of Common Pleas arising in such county when said court shall not be in session, which Hrits shall be made returnable to the next Superi or Court, within the jurisdiction of the Superior Court. and If not to the next Court of Common Pleas in such county. Whenever any injunction shall have been granted returnable to the Superi- or Court as aforesaid, the respondent may prefer his petition to dissGss i. to any judge of the %d su nhe prefers his petition to judge of the Superi- or court, such judge shall have the same power to dissolve, modify, and dispose oft that he would have had if the injunction had been granted by him. e-
 Sec q. The Courts of Common Pleas within their several counties, may, concerning any mat II said court, issue writs of mandamus in cases in which they may by law be granted, and may pro- ceed therein and render judgement according to thec0urse of the common law; all the provisions of sections 32 373 and 374 of chayter 15 and title 1st, are hereby made applicable to the Courts of Common Pleas, as we'll as to the Superior Courts. Sec. g. Application may be made to any Court of Common Pleas when in session, or to any judge of said court in vacation, for writ of habeas cor pus, and such court or judge may issue the same returnable before said court or judge, and said court or judge, and said court or fudge shall have the powersin such causes pending before them as the Superior court and the judges theaeof have in writs ofhabeas corpus issued by them. All the provisions of sections 379 380. 381 and 382, chap tor 15 and title 1st of the Revised Statutes of this State, are hereby made applicable to writs of ha- beas tcorpusl issued by Courts of Common Pleas and the judgest hereof.
 Sec. 8. All cases at law or in equity, which shall be pending on the list Monday of September, 1870, before the Superior Court for the county of New Haven, upon which there has been on said day no trial. either by court, committee or jury, and which are within the appellate, or original ex- elusive jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven county, shall be transferred by said Superior Court during the month of Septem- ber, 1870, upon motion of either party to the said court of common pleas and shall be included in the docket of said court, and shall be thereafter proceeded with to final Judgements and executions @ by said court of common pleas.
 Sec. 10. Nothing in this act, except the pro- visions of the ninth section shall apply to or effect any suit now pending.
 Approved, July 13, 1870.