The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-08-13
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JUDICIAL.

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JUDICIAL.
Section l. The judicial power of the
state shall be vested in supreme court,
circuit courts, courts of common pleas,
courts of probate, justices OF the peace,
and snch other courts inferior to the cir
emit court, in one or more counties or
cities, as the general assembly may IRON
time to time establish.
Sec. 3. The supreme court shall con-
sist of five Judges, a majority OF whom
shall be necessary to form quorum or
pronounce a decision. 1t shall have origi-
nal jurisdiction in quo warranto, manda-
mus. habeas corpus and procedendo, and
such appellate jurisdiction as may be
provided by law. 1t shall hold at least
one term i'm each year at the seat OF gov
ernment and such other terms, at the
seat of government OF elsewhere, as may
be provided by law. The judges of the
supreme court shall be elected by the
electors of the state at large, and their
term Of Office shall be ten years. Said
court snay appoint a clerk and reporter,
who shall receive such compensation as
may be prescribed by law.
Sec. 8. At the first election for judges
of the supreme court, no elector shall
vote for more than three candidates.
See. 4. The Judges of the present SUI
preme court, in Office when the judges Of
the supreme court first elected under this
constitution shall be qualified, are hereby
constituted a commission to dispose of
such part of the business then on the
docket as shall not, by arrangement be-
tween the commission and the new court,
be transferred to the latter; which COM
mission shall have like jurisdiction and
powers in respect thereto as are or may
be vested in said court. The members of
the commission shall be paid the same
compensation as the judges of the su-
preme court for the time being.
Sec. ). Said commission shall consist
of five members, majority of whom shall
be necessary to form quorum or pro-
nounce a decision. Any vacancy occur
ring in the commission shall be filled by
appointment of the governor, with the
advice and consent of the senate; or, if
the general assembly be not in session, by
the governor; but in such case the ap-
pointment shall expire at the end of the
next session of the general assembly.
The commissioners may appoint or re-
move such attendants as may be neces-
sary. The clerk and reporter of the
supreme court shall be clerk and reporter
of the commission. The decisions of the
commission shall be certified, entered and
enforced as the judgments of the supreme
court. The commission shall continue
until the cases committed to it are de-
termined, but not exceeding three years
and all cases then undetermined shall be
disposed of by the supreme court.
Sec. 6. The general assembly may, on
application of the supreme court duly
entered on its journal and certified, pro-
vide by law from time to time for the
appointment by the governor, with the
advice and consent of the senate, of like
commission; provided that the term of
any such commission shall not exceed
two years; nor shall it be created oftener
than once in ten years.
Src. z. The state shall be divided into
seven judicial circuits of compact terri
tory, and bounded by county lines, in each
of which, three Judges, residing therein,
shall be elected by the electors thereof.
The circuit court shall consist of three of
the judges so elected, two of whom shall
be necessary to form a quorum or pro-
nounce decision; and shall be held in
each county at least twice in each year.
The Judges may be allotted for that pur-
pose to the several circuits, in such mode
and order, and under such regulations as
may be prescribed by law and their term
of Office shall be eight years. More than
one court may be held at the same time
in any circuit.
Sec. s. The circuit court shall have
like original jurisdiction with the supreme
court, and such appellate jurisdiction, in
ferior to that of the supreme court, as
may be provided by law.
Sec. 8. The state shall be divided into
twelve common pleas districts of CON-
pact territory bounded by county lines
Each district composed of two or more
counties shall be divided into subdi.
visions, not exceeding the number of the
judges to be chosen therein, of compact
territory, bounded by county lines, and as
nearly equal in population as practicable
having due regard to business. In each
district or its subdivision, as the case may
be, such number of common pleas judges
residing therein, as is provided in thii
constitution, shall be elected by the elec
tors thereof, who shall be judges of theil
respective districts. In each quarter o
the judicial year, which shall commenc,
on the first day of January, and in eacl
county of the several districts, term o
the common pleas court shall be held b,
one or more of these Judges; and NOR
than one court may be held at the sam
time in any district or subdivision. TIL
judicial service of each district shall b
apportioned to the several counties there
of, according to population and business
Not less than seventy-two days OF ope
session, in the first, second and fourt
quarters respectively, and twenty-fou
days in the third quarter, shall be hel
by each Judge, unless all the bushes
assigned to him be sooner disposed OF
provided, that in districts composed OF
single county, no judge shall be require
20 hold such session more than ten day
the third quarter. The general assembl
may provide by law for assigning judg
or Judges of any district to hold court
any other district, when necessary.
Sec. 10. The jurisdiction of the cour
of'common pleas, and of the judges ther
OF, shall be fixed by law, but shall |
inferior TO that of the circuit court.
Sec. IL. The judges of the courts