PART I.

OF COURTS OF JUSTICE.

PART I.

OF COURTS OF JUSTICE.

TITLE I.

OF THEIR ORGANIZATION, JURISDICTION, AND TERMS.

CHAPTER I. Of Courts of justice in general.
II. Of the Court for the trial of impeach-

ments.

III. Of the Supreme Court.
IV. Of the District Courts.

V. Of the County Courts.

VI. Of the Probate Courts.

VII. Of the Municipal Criminal Court of
San Francisco.

VIII. Of Justices' Courts.

IX. Of Police Courts.

X. General provisions respecting Courts of justice.

CHAPTER I.

COURTS OF JUSTICE IN GENERAL.

SECTION 33. The several Courts of this State.

34. Courts of record.

33. The following are the Courts of justice of this State:

The several Courts of this State.

Courts of record.

1. The Court for the trial of impeachments;
2. The Supreme Court;
3. The District Courts;
4. The County Courts;

5. The Probate Courts;

6. The Municipal Criminal Court of San Francisco; 7. The Justices' Courts;

8. The Police Courts.

34. The Courts enumerated in the first six subdivisions of the preceding section are Courts of record.

Members of the Court.

Jurisdiction.

Officers of the Court.

Trial of impeachments

provided

for in Penal Code.

CHAPTER II.

OF THE COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF IMPEACHMENTS.

SECTION 35. Members of the Court.

36. Jurisdiction.

37. Officers of the Court.

38. Trial of impeachments provided for in Penal Code.

35. The Court for the trial of impeachments is composed of the members of the Senate, or a majority of them.

36. The Court has power to try impeachments, when presented by the Assembly, of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Justices of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the District Courts, for any misdemeanor in office.

37. The officers of the Senate are the officers of the Court.

38. Proceedings on the trial of impeachments are provided for in THE PENAL CODE.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE SUPREME COURT.

SECTION 40. Members of the Court.

41. Chief Justice.

42. Jurisdiction of two kinds.

43. Original jurisdiction.

44. Appellate jurisdiction.

45. May reverse, affirm, or modify, etc., remittitur.

46. Number of Judges necessary for the transaction of

business.

47. Number to pronounce judgment.

48. Court always open for certain purposes.

49. Terms, when held. Additional terms.
50. Terms, where held.

of the

40. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice Members and four Associate Justices, elected at the judicial Court. elections, and holding their offices for the term of ten years from the first day of January next after their election.

Justice.

41. The Justice having the shortest term to serve Chief is the Chief Justice.

NOTE.-Stats. 1871-2, p. 364.

An Act to determine who must act as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court.

[Approved March 14, 1872.]

[Enacting clause.]

SECTION 1. That Justice of the Supreme Court, elected by the people, who has the shortest term to serve under his commission is the Chief Justice after the expiration of the term of the present Chief Justice.

SEC. 2. In case two or more of the Justices of the Supreme Court shall be equally entitled to the office of Chief Justice after the expiration of the term of the present Chief Justice, and neither of the two shall voluntarily and in writing waive his right to be such Chief Justice, then such Justices shall determine by lot which of them shall hold such office, and a record of the allotment or waiver shall be entered in the minutes of the Court, and a certified copy thereof shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and be filed in his office.