The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-10-13

may be removed for dlsaDlllty continuing ior
one year, or for refusal to perform the duties
of his office, by a vote of two-thirds of all the
members OF the Senate and oftwothirds OF all
the members of the House of Assembly voting
separately, after a hearing before both Houses
in joint session.
SECTION ~.
1. The Supreme Court shall be organized in
three divisions, namely: the Appeals Division,
the Law Division, and the Chancery Division.
1t shall consist of a Presiding Justice OF the
Appeals Division who shall be styled the
Chief Justice, Presiding Justice of the Law
Division who shall be styled the President JUS
tice, and Presiding Justice of the Chancery
Division, who shall be styled the Chancellor,
and eighteen Associate Justices, which number
may be increased by law.
3 The Appeals Division shall consist OF the
Chief Justice, and six other Justices of the
Supreme Court to be assigned by the Gov
ernor. A Justice of the supreme Court as
signed by the Governor to the Appeals Dlv1-
sion shall serve in said Division until the end
the remaining Justices shall be assigned by
the Supreme Court to the Law or Chancery
Division, as the business of the Court may re-
quire.
the Appeals Division shall be SO great that
the Division cannot promptly hear and de-
thorized by statute, temporarily assign five of
the Justices of the other Divisions TO SIT In the
Appeals Division, which shall thereupon sit
in two Divisions for the hearing and decision
of causes pending at the time of such assign
ment.
stitute quorum on the final hearing of any
cause in the Appeals Division. but the SUI
preme Court may provide by rule for the
making of interlocutory orders by lesser
number or justices, OF by one justice; such
orders to be subject to revision by the APP
peals Division.
Division, no Justice who has given judicial
opinion in the cause in favor of or against the
Judgment, order or decree under review
shall sit at the hearing to review such Judg-
ment, order or decree, but the reasons for such
opinion shall be assigned to one Court in writ
ing. g.
preme Court. to be presided over by the Ch1ef
Justice, shall constitute a quorum for the
assignment of justices. and for the appoint
ment of officers, and-the enactment Ofrules.
O. The supreme Cours saal aPpoin u. one as,t OF
the decisions of the Court, and shall by rule
define his or their duties and powers The re-
porters shah hold office for 1--WE years, subject
however, to removal at the discretion of the
Court.
l, The Appeals Division shall haVeand eXer
else the appellate Jurisdiction heretofore pos
sessed by the Court of Errors and Appeals,
! the Jurisdiction heretofore possessed by the
the jurisdiction heretofore possessed by the
Prerogative Court on appeal, and by the Ordt4
| nary on appeal, and such further appellate
jurisdiction may be conferred upon it by
law, together with such original Jurisdiction
as may be incident to the complete deter
! mination OF any cause on review, saving how
ever, the right of trial by jury.
2. The Jurisdiction heret OfOre possessed by
| the Supreme Court and the Justices thereof
| not hereby conferred ON the Appeals Division
| and the jurisdiction heretofore possessed by
! the Circuit Courts and the Judges thereof
/ and such further original jurisdiction not OF
/ an equitable nature, and such further appel
| late Jurisdiction from inferior courts, as may
/ be conferred by statute, shall be exercised by
| the Law Division of the Supreme Court and
3! by the several Justices thereof In accordance
| With rules of practice and procedure prescr1b
| ed by statute, or in the absence of statute, by
| the Supreme Court.
| 8. The Jurisdiction heretofore possessed by
| the Prerogative Court and the Ordinary, not
| hereby conferred on the Appeals DIVISION
! and the Jurisdiction heretofore possessed by
| the Court of Chancery and the Chancellor. and
| such further original equity Jurisdiction as
| may be conferred by statute, and such further
original Jurisdiction as is now comfortable on
| the trerogative Court shall be exercised by
| the Chancery Division and by the Chancellor
| and the sever rjustices of said Division in ac-
| cOrdance Withsules of practice and procedure
prescribed BY tatute, or. in the absence Of
| statute, by the Supreme Court, but the Jus
| tees of that Division shall be under such con
| troll and supervision by the Chancellor as
shall be provided by the Sup. eme Court.
4. Terms of the Supreme Court presided
| over by a single Justice of the Law Division
for the trial OF issues Joined in or brought to
| the Law Division of the Supreme Court shall
| be held in the several counties at times fixed
/ by the Supreme Court. Until so fixed, such
| trial terms snail be held at the places and
! times now fixed by law for the holding OF
| the Courts of Common Pleas In the several
counties.
| 5. The Supreme Court may provide by rule
| for the transfer of any cause or issue from the
Law Division to the Chancery Division, OIL
| from the Chancery Division to the Law Divis
| ion of the supreme Court, and from the
County Court to tue Law Division of the
| Chancery Division of the Supreme Court, and
! for the giving of complete legal and equitable
| relief in any cause in the Court or Division
where it may be pending.
Nothing herein contained shall prevent
the alteration, by law, of any statutory power
| or jurisdiction conferred upon any Court OF
Judge since the adoption of the Constitution
| in the year one thousand eight hundred and
| forty-four, and nothing herein contained shall
prevent the Legislature from comforting upon
any inferior Court which may hereafter be
| estaL lished such power or Jurisdiction as was
exercised by or which may now be conferred
| upon the inferior Courts mentioned in Section
| l of Article vi of the Constitution of 1874.