§ 17-2-116. Disability of Judges or Chancellors
When any of the judges of the circuit courts, criminal courts, other special courts or courts of general sessions, or any of the chancellors, is unable from sickness or other physical disability to attend and hold any of the courts at the time and place required by law, the governor shall appoint and commission a […]
§ 17-2-117. Powers of Special Judges or Chancellors
The person appointed and commissioned pursuant to § 17-2-116 shall have all the power and authority of the regular judge or chancellor in whose place the person is appointed, shall draw the same salary, have the same emoluments of office and shall continue to hold the courts and exercise the duties of the office, including […]
§ 17-2-118. Substitute Judges
If, for good cause, including, but not limited to, by reason of illness, physical incapacitation, vacation or absence from the city or judicial district on a matter related to the judge’s judicial office, the judge of a state or county trial court of record is unable to hold court, the judge shall appoint a substitute […]
§ 17-2-119. Contested Elections — Temporary Judge
The governor shall appoint a temporary judge, chancellor or district attorney general in all cases where a contest arises in the election of any of those officers, and they shall hold the offices, and have all the powers and jurisdiction pertaining to the offices, until the contest is judicially determined and the regularly elected officers […]
§ 17-2-120. Oath of Special Judge
Every special judge, before entering on the duties of the judge’s appointment, shall take an oath before the clerk of the court to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of Tennessee, and also the following oath of office: “I, A B, solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to […]
§ 17-2-121. Retired or Former Judges in Certain Civil Cases — Courtrooms — Process — Manner of Trial
If the trial of a civil case is expected to be complex, lengthy or the litigants, for any reason, desire the matter to be disposed of in an expeditious manner, the litigants may, upon joint motion of all parties to the action and with the consent of the appropriate judge, agree to employ a retired […]
§ 17-2-111. Expenses of Assigned Judge or Chancellor
The expenses of the chancellor, judge or appellate judge who serves as assigned by the chief justice under § 17-2-109 or § 17-2-110, or the retired judge designated or assigned in accordance with § 16-3-502(2), shall be certified by the chancellor, judge, appellate judge or retired judge pursuant to policies and guidelines promulgated by the […]
§ 17-2-101. Grounds of Incompetency
No judge or chancellor shall be competent, except by consent of all parties, to sit in the following cases: Where the judge or chancellor is interested in the event of any cause; Where the judge or chancellor is connected with either party, by affinity or consanguinity, within the sixth degree, computing by the civil law; […]
§ 17-2-102. Incompetency of Supreme Court Judges
The judges of the supreme court, within the first week of each term, or as soon thereafter as the fact comes to their knowledge, shall certify to the governor all cases upon the docket in which any of them are incompetent to sit, upon the receipt of which certificate the governor shall appoint and commission […]
§ 17-2-103. Powers of Special Supreme Court Judges
The special judges commissioned pursuant to § 17-2-102 shall hear and determine the causes in the commission set forth, and all such other causes during the same term, and shall have the same power and authority in those causes as the regular judges of the court. Code 1858, § 3920 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 68, […]