§ 17-2-113. Circuit Judge Acting as Chancellor
Any circuit judge may also during the sittings of a chancery court, upon notification of a cause in which the chancellor is incompetent, as provided in § 17-2-112, take the place of the chancellor on the bench and hear and determine the cause as chancellor, the necessary entry being made on the minutes of the […]
§ 17-2-115. Certification of Incompetency to Governor
When any judge of any circuit court, criminal court, or chancellor, or judge or chancellor of any special court of equal dignity with circuit or chancery court, certifies to the governor that the judge or chancellor is incompetent to hold the judge’s or chancellor’s court, or to try any cause or causes pending in the […]
§ 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 […]
§ 17-1-403. Sole Authority Authorizing Secretarial Assistance
It is declared to be the legislative intent that this part shall supersede any and all existing general laws authorizing secretarial assistance for trial judges and chancellors or providing for their compensation, and that this part constitutes the sole authority for such purposes.
§ 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, […]
§ 17-2-104. Sickness of Judges of Supreme Court
In case of the sickness of any one (1) or more of the judges of the supreme court, the governor shall have the power to commission persons learned in law to fill the vacancy during the illness of the judge or judges.
§ 17-2-105. Special Judges for Appellate Courts
In case of the incompetency, sickness or other disability of any judge of the court of appeals or court of criminal appeals, the governor shall have the power to commission a person to fill the vacancy during the incompetency, sickness or other disability of the judge, and the person so appointed shall be paid the […]
§ 17-2-106. Compensation of Special Supreme Court Judge
Special judges of the supreme court shall in all cases be paid the same salary for the time served and receive the same expense allowance as are allowed the regular judges. Code 1858, § 3930 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 68, § 2); Acts 1895, ch. 76, § 7; Shan., § 5729; mod. Code 1932, § […]