RULES. The Judges of the Supreme Court find it necessary, as well for the accommodation of those who have occasion to attend the court, as for the efficient discharge of their own duties, to establish and publish the following rules: All applicants for admission to the Bar must present themselves for examination during the first seven days of the term. All cases which shall be docketed before the eighth day of the term, shall stand for trial in the course of that term. Appeals permitted to be docketed after the first seven days of the term shall be tried or continued at that term at the option of the appellee. In all other causes brought up afterwards either party will be entitled to a continuance. The court will not call causes for trial before the eighth day of the term, but will enter upon the trial of any cause in the mean time which the parties and their counsel may be desirous to try. On the eighth day of the term, the court will call over the calendar of all the causes, and then, but not afterwards, by the general consent of the Bar, a precedence may be given to causes in which gentlemen attending from a distance are concerned, over causes on any of the dockets. But unless this change be made, and subject to this change only, the court will proceed regularly with the dockets, first with the State, next the Equity, and finally the Law docket. When causes are called for trial, by the court, they must be then either argued, submitted, or continued, except under special peculiar circumstances, to be shown to the court, and except that Equity causes under a rule of reference may be kept open a reasonable time for the coming in of reports, and the filing and arguing of exceptions. 52 FROM JUNE TERM, 1838, TO DECEMBER TERM, 1839, BOTH INCLUSIVE. BY THOMAS P. DEVEREUX AND WILLIAM H. BATTLE. VOLS. III & IV. RALEIGH: PUBLISHED BY TURNER AND HUGHES. THOS. J. LEMAY, PRINTER. 1840. |