The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-09-08
SECTION ".

l. The Supreme Court shall be organized in
three divisions namely: the Appeals Division,
the Law Division and the Chancery Division.
1t shall consist of Presiding Justice of the
Appeals Division who shall be styled the
Chief Justice, a Presiding Justice OF the Law
tice, and a Presiding Justice of the Chancery
Division, who shall be styled the Chancellor,
and eighteen Associate Justices, which number
may be increased by law.
2. 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 Divi-
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.
3. Whenever the number OF causes before
the Appeals Division shall be SO great that
termine them, the Governor shall, when au-
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.
A. -Four Justices shall be necessary to con
stitute quorum on the final hearing of any
cause in the Appeals Division, but the Su-
making of interlocutory orders by lesser
number or justices, or by one justice; such
orders to be subject to revision by the APP
peals Division.
On the hearing of cause in the Appeals
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 the Court in writ
Ing. c..
preme Court. to be presided over by the Chief
Justice, shall constitute a quorum for the
assignment of justices, and for the appoint
ment Of officers. and the enactment OF rules.
more reporters, not exceeding three, to report
| the decisions of the Court, and shall by rule
| define his or their duties and powers The re-
pOrters shall hold office for five years, subject
however, to removal at the discretion OF the
| Court.
SECTION V.
| else the appellate Jurisdiction heretofore pos
| sessed by the Court of Errors and Appeals,
the jurisdiction heretofore possessed by the
Supreme Court writ of error. and
the jurisdiction heretofore possessed by the
| Prerogative Court on appeal, and by the Ord1-
nary on appeal, and such further appellate
| Jurisdiction as 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, now
| ever, the right of trial by jury
| 2. The Jurisdiction heretofore 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 o.
| an equitable nature, and such further appel
| late Jurisdiction from inferior courts, as may
| be conferred by statute, shall be exercised by
1 the Law Division of the Supreme Court and
| by the several justices thereof, in accordance
i with rules of practice and procedure prescrlD
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, moi
hereby conferred on the Appeals Division
/ and the Jurisdiction heretofore possessed by
the Court of Chancery and the Chancellor, ano
i such further original equity jurisdiction al
may be conferred by statute, and such further
| original jurisdiction as is now conferrable on
| the Provocative Court shall be exercised by
| the Chancery Division and by the sChancello.
and the sever rjustices of said Division IN &C
cordance withsules of practice and procedure
Statute, by the Supreme Court, but the Jus
t1ces of that Division shall be under sucn con
| troll and supervision by the Chancellor al
shall be provided by the Sup. eme Court.
/ 4. Terms of the Supreme Court presldeC
| over by a single Justice of the Law Division
for the trial OF issues Joined in or brought K
the Law Division of the Supreme Court shall
be held in the several counties at times nxet
by the Supreme Court. Until SO fixed, sucf
times now fixed by law for the holding o
the Courts of Common Pleas IN the severa
counties.
i g. The Supreme Court may provide by rule
for the transfer of any cause or issue from the
Law Division to the Chancery Division, OF
1 from the Chancery Division to the Law D1vls
ion of the Supreme Court, and from the
| County Court to tine Law Division of tht
Chancery Division of the supreme Court, anc
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 anc
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 wa!
/ exercised by or which may now be conferred
i upon the inferior Courts mentioned in Section
/ l of Article vi, of the Constitution of 1874.