The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-06-23

,l7l judicial District Court,
OF LOUISIANA.
All former rules of this court are here
by a~brogated and the following are now
adopted:
RULE /.
Court will be in continuous session
from the second Monday" of September
until the Saturday before the Second
Monday ofJuly.
RULE II.
Court will convene OH Monday OF each
week, or the next legal day thereafter
if Monday Be a legal holiday.
PYLE III.
Court shall open. ut 10 O'Clock, a. in.
unless an adjOnfnment to an earlier hour
is ordered, and adjourn at 4 o'clock. p. IN.
unless the business of the day i& sooner
" disposed of or requires q later adjourn
nlent. Recess will be taken between
1890 p. nj. and 2 p. m. except by Consent
OF the parties.
RULEIv.
The morning hour shall consist 6i the
time from the reading of the minutes To
calling of business on calendar for the
day but shall be confined to one hours
duration from the opening Of court and is
set apart for. 1st--signing Judgments.
2nd-fling motions ard exceptions. 3rd-
taking defaults. DIFFERENTIATION of
defaults and confessions of judgment.
5th-trial of exceptions and motions not
requiring note of evidence.
RULE ".
Exceptions and motions, fled, stand
hxed for the morning hour of the next
day unless there is evidence to be anluced
on the trial thereof in which case same
b be fixed on motion.
RUEE,vI.
No default will be entered against de-
PENDANT during the pendency. of any ex-
eeption filed by him, hor until the regular
hour therefor ON the day following that
on which said exception may be over
ruled.
RULE VII.
The civil and probate docket shall be
called ON the first Monday of each month.
RULE VIII.
The clerk shall keep posted in the court
room a calendar of all cases Us fixed and
they shall be called for trial in the order
in which they have been fixed for trial.
RULE TX.
A case fixed for one daysandnot reached
shall be reassiEned.
RULE X.
case begun and not concluded will
have precedence on the following day
after the morning hour.
RULE XI.
All motions except for appeals, defaults.
hxing of cases, ~c0ntinuances. and discon-
t1nlfaDces shall be in writing, provided
judgments of dismissal shall be signed in
I'LL cases.
RULE XII.
All Instructions to the clerk or sheriff.
and all agreements between counsel must
be in writing, and if required, produced
IN open court.
RULE XIII.
The clerk shall keep an order book in
which all orders shall be written dated
and signed by the Attorney giving the
order. Orders for witnesses must be en-
tered at least 81 hours before the case is
called for trial. And must designate the
locality in which said witnesses reside or
are to be found. And when there are
as witness, the order and ~sCbpOtua shall
describe which person is needed. The
sheriff. is required to make personal SER
vice as far as practicable. And when
personal service is not made the officer
making the return shall state therein
service. When q case shallbe called for
trial, counsel shall furnish the sheriff
with a list of the witnesses they desire
called.
RULE XIV.
All cases standing ON the trial docket
for twelve months or more IN which nc
motion or order is entered shall lie placed
On the dead docket. All cases so placed
on said docket may be reinstated on the
trial docket by order granted in open
court IN written motion OF. any party in
terested, notice of which shall be mailed
by the clerk to the opposing parties, and
no further action shall be had in said case
till ten days after the granting of the
order of reinstatement.
The clerk shall keep a dead docket In q
separate book.
RULE XIV.
No appeals from Justices court shall be
dismissed for any informality that may
exist i'll the transcript. The right of re-
.vided by law, whenever, an agreement
cannot be had by mutual consent, fol-
obtaining documents in lower courts
being reserved to the parties. In all such
appeals the parties may file any, pleas
in this court for the trial de nov Of said
cases:
RULE XVI
Counsel having special charges bearing
upon the leading points in any jury case
is required to submit same In writing al
or before openiog of the oral arguments
unless such special charges should be
suggested by the argument or originate
from the charge of the court. When it ID
practicable at least "a hours notice shall
be give to the court for a written charge
to the jury.
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