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–57– -57§ 172. Preliminary examinations The magistrates' courts have jurisdiction to hold preliminary examinations in charges of crime within the original jurisdiction of the district court, to commit offenders to the district court, and to grant bail in bailable cases. Subchapter IV—Venue of Civil Actions § 201. Venue of district court civil actions (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, all civil actions in the district court may be brought in the division where the defendant or necessary party defendant resides or is found, or in the division where the plaintiff or one of the plaintiffs resides, at the election of the plaintiff. (b) If neither the plaintiff nor the defendant resides within the Canal Zone, and the action is brought to seize or obtain title to property of the defendant within the Canal Zone, the action shall be brought in the division where the property is situated or is found. (c) Actions against executors, administrators, and guardians touching the perwrmance of their official duties, and actions for account and settlement by them, and actions for the distribution of the estates of deceased persons among the heirs and distributees, and actions for the payment of legacies, shall be brought in the division in which the will was admitted to probate, or letters of administration were granted, or the guardian was appointed. (d) Actions to obtain possession of real property, or to recover damages for injuries to real property, or to establish an interest or right in or to real property shall be brought in the division where the property, or some part thereof, is situated. § 202. Transmittal of record upon change of venue When a change of venue from one division of the district court to the other division thereof has been ordered by the court pursuant to section 1404 or 1406 of Title 28, United States Code, the clerk shall immediately make out a true transcript of all docket entries made in the action, and certify thereto under his official seal, and transmit the transcript with all the papers in the action to the other division, and the case shall be tried therein as if it had been instituted there originally. § 203. Venue of civil actions in magistrates' courts Actions in magistrates' courts must be commenced and, subject to the right to change the place of trial as provided in this subchapter, must be tried: (1) when two or more persons are jointly, or jointly and severally, bound in any debt or contract, or otherwise jointly liable in the same action, and reside in different subdivisions—in either subdivision: (2) in cases of injury to the person or property—in the subdivision where the injury was committed, or where the defendant resides: (3) if for the recovery of personal property, or the value thereof, or damages for taking or detaining the same—in the subdivision in which the property may be found, or in which the property was taken, or in which the defendant resides; (4) when neither plaintiff nor defendant resides within the Canal Zone, and the action is brought to seize or obtain title to property of the defendant within the Canal Zone—in the subdivision where the property is situated or found;

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