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 JUSTICES' CODE.

CHAPTER 1.

TITLE AND APPLICATION OF CODE.

§ 6618. Title. This act shall be known as the justices' code of the state of North Dakota.

§ 8619. Application of code. The provisions of this code are applicable throughout the state to all justices of the peace now in office or hereafter chosen, and to every police magistrate acting ex officio as justice of the peace.

CHAPTER 2.

GENERAL POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

§ 6620. Office of justice, where. Every justice of the peace shall keep his office and hold his court at a place by him selected, which must be within the county, civil township, city or town as the case may be in which he may have been elected or appointed.

§ 8621. Court always open. Clerk. A justice's court is deemed to be always open and every judicial act of a justice is deemed to be the .act of the court. A justice is his own clerk, but when required by law to reduce testimony to writing, he may employ a clerk for that purpose.

§ 8622. Powers of. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, each justice of the peace has power and authority to hold a court, maintain order and decorum and take cognizance therein according to law of all actions or other judicial proceedings within his jurisdiction and hear, try and determine the same or make such orders therein as may be prescribed by law and to issue in such action or proceeding all lawful process which may be necessary or proper, and require and enforce obedience thereto. 1189