NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 234

HOUSE BILL 320

 

 

AN ACT TO CONFER LIMITED CIVIL JURISDICTION UPON THE CRIMINAL TERMS OF COURT OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ROBESON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That at all criminal terms of the Superior Court for Robeson County motions may be made, orders, judgments, decrees and causes tried and determined, including trials by jury at criminal terms, in the same manner to the same legal effect as if tried at civil terms of court: Provided, that such matters may only be heard and determined by consent or upon seven days' written notice to the adverse party or his counsel of record.

Sec. 2. The courts shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine divorce cases and other uncontested matters at both civil and criminal terms without notice.

Sec. 3. That the Secretary of State shall, upon the ratification of this Act, immediately certify a copy thereof to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Robeson County.

Sec. 4. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. That this Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1959.