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 JUSTICES' CODE.

Chapter. Section.

1. Civil proceedings in justices' courts|6041-6144

2. Criminal proceedings in justices' courts|6145-6183

Chapter. Section.

3. Justices' quarterly report to county board|6184-6188

CHAPTER 1.

CIVIL PROCEEDINGS IN JUSTICES' COURTS.

Article. Section.

1. Jurisdiction of justices' courts|6041-6043

2. Place of trial|6044-6049

3. Manner of commencing actions|6050-6057

4. Pleadings|6058-6066

5. Attachments|6067-6070

6. Claim and delivery|6071

7. Forcible entry and detainer|6072-6081

8. Judgment by default|6082-6083

9. Time of trial and postpone­ments|6084-6088

Article. Section.

10. Trials|6089-6101

11. Judgments other than by default|6102-6110

12. Executions|6111-6117

13. Contempts|6118-6122

14. Dockets of justices|6123-6128

15 Appeals|6129-6136

16. General provisions|6137-6144

Article 1.-The Jurisdiction of Justice’s Courts.

Section.

6041. Justices' office kept where.

6042. Civil jurisdiction of ju8tices' classified and limited.

Section.

6043. Criminal jurisdiction.

When justices shall keep their offices. s. 1, Jus. C.

§ 6041. Justices of the peace must keep their offices and hold their courts at some place selected by them, in their respect­ive townships and c0unties, in and for which they may be elected, and these courts are always open for the transaction of business.

[For jurisdiction, etc., of township justices, see sections 740 to 742.]

Civil jurisdic­tion of courts of justices of the peace classified and limited. s. 2, Jus. C.

§ 6042. The civil jurisdiction of these courts, within their respective counties, extends:

1. To an action arising on contract, for the recovery of mon­ey only, where the sum claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars.

2. To an action for damages for injury to the person, or for tak­ing or detaining personal property, or for injuring personal prop­erty, or for an injury to real property, where the title or bound­ary of such real property does not in anywise come in question, and where the damages claimed do not exceed one hundred dol­lars.

3. To an action for a fine, penalty or forfeiture, not exceed­ing one hundred dollars. given by statute or the ordinance of an incorporated city or town.

4. To an action upon a bond or undertaking conditioned for the payment of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars, though the penalty exceed that sum., the judgment to be given for the sum actually due. When the payments are to be made by installments, an action may be brought for each installment as it becomes due. 1021