Chapter XLIV. *to provide far the holding of the District Court of the District of Columbia, in cases of Sidauss or other Disability of the District Judge.*May 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Provision for holding the Dist
364 words·~2 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-10/chapter-xliv-33810·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Chap. XLIV.— An Act *to provide far the holding of the District Court of the District of Columbia, in cases of Sidauss or other Disability of the District Judge.*May 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Provision for holding the District Court for the District of Columbia in case of sickness or disability of the District Judge.That, in case of the sickness or other disability of the Judge of the District Court of the United States of the District of Columbia, which shall prevent him from holding any stated or appointed term of the District Court of his district; and upon the fact of such sickness or other disability being certified by the clerk of said District Court to the assistant judges of the Circuit Court of said district, it shall be the duty of the senior Assistant Judge of said court to hold the District Court aforesaid, and discharge all the judicial duties of the District Judge, who shall be sick or otherwise disabled as aforesaid, so long as such sickness or disability shall continue; and in case of the sickness or other disability of said senior Assistant Judge, the same duty shall devolve on the junior Assistant Judge of said Circuit Court; and the said judges, and each of them, is hereby authorized to exercise original jurisdiction in admiralty cases for the purposes of this act and all the acts and proceedings in said District Court, by or before .either of said assistant judges, so required to hold said District Court, shall have the same force, effect, and validity, as if done and transacted by and before the District Judge of said District Court.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* The substituted justice may sit on appeals from his own decision.That the associate judge holding the District Court as aforesaid shall, and is hereby empowered to sit in the said Circuit Court in any case of appeal or of error from his own decision in said District Court, in the same manner as if said District Court had not been held by him. Approved, May 27, 1852.