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CHAPTER 56. PLEADING AND PRACTICE. · ARTICLE 6. TRIAL.
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§56-6-1. Law docket.
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§56-6-2. Chancery docket.
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§56-6-3. Application for hearing.
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§56-6-4. Direction and trial of issues out of chancery.
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§56-6-5. Trial of action at law; separate verdicts on different issues; interrogatories to jury.
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§56-6-6. Time for trial, execution of order and rendering of final judgment.
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§56-6-7. Continuance upon affidavit because of absence of witness.
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§56-6-8. Continuance of causes at end of term.
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§56-6-9. Case not to be discontinued by failure to sign judgment.
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§56-6-10. Stay of proceedings until other action, suit or proceeding decided.
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§56-6-11. Execution of order of inquiry and trial of case by court; six-member jury in civil trials; twelve-member jury in eminent domain and criminal trials.
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§56-6-12. Qualifications of jurors; examination on voir dire; peremptory challenges.
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§56-6-12a. Alternate jurors for protracted civil cases; qualifications and challenges.
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§56-6-13. Special jury in civil cases.
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§56-6-14. Juror having matter of fact to be tried disqualified.
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§56-6-15. Exceptions against jurors after being sworn.
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§56-6-16. Irregularities affecting the jury; time for objection.
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§56-6-17. View by jury.
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§56-6-18. Disclosure by juror of knowledge of facts in issue.
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§56-6-19. Instructions to jury generally; form and manner of giving.
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§56-6-20. Reading instructions to jury; instructions part of record.
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§56-6-21. Time for examining instructions, objecting thereto and settlement thereof.
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§56-6-22. Oral instructions by court; written instructions during trial.
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§56-6-23. Papers taken by jury.
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§56-6-24. Argument of counsel.
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§56-6-25. Time limitation as to nonsuit.
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§56-6-26. How verdict may be affected by faulty count.
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§56-6-27. Interest on claim and verdict.
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§56-6-28. New trial.
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§56-6-29. Judgment or decree to be for aggregate of principal and interest to date of verdict.
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§56-6-30. Action on contract for payments in installments or on bond with collateral condition.
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§56-6-31. Interest on judgment or decree.
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§56-6-32. Recovery against one or more contract defendants.
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§56-6-33. Judgment or decree against personal representative or committee; costs.
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§56-6-34. Issuance of executions during term.
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§56-6-35. Bills of exceptions generally.
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§56-6-36. Certificate in lieu of bill of exceptions.
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§56-6-36a. Settling, signing and certifying bill of exceptions or certificate in lieu thereof by judge other than judge before whom case was tried.
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§56-6-37. How certificate of trial judge or bills of exceptions to be considered; instructions in transcript all presumed to be given by court.
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§56-6-38. Hearing of chancery causes in open court; oral testimony; rules of evidence; transcript for appeal.
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§56-6-39. Hearing of motion; action or chancery cause in vacation; certification, entry and effect of order or decree.
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§56-6-40. Contempt proceedings in vacation.
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§56-6-41. Certification and entry of vacation orders.
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