COURT RULES.

SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE. ·

Court Rules and Amendments Adopted Since the Revision and Publication of the Law Court Rules in 1894, and Readopted in 1897.

Amendment to Rule VII.

commencement of the trial term, mail to each member of the court a list of causes

judge shall appoint a day or days not later

then at issue together with a copy of the printed record, and of the briefs of counsel,

He shall also, at least one week before the than two weeks thereafter for a meeting in Dover of the judges who sat in the causes argued at said term, for the purpose of conof the judge or judges who shall prepare the ference upon said causes and the assignment opinion or opinions of the court therein.

filed in each of said causes. (Adopted June 21, 1899.)

Rule XXII.

Conferences and Opinions.

1. Upon the adjournment of this court, at the end of each term thereof, the presiding

2. The judge or judges so allotted shall, not later than one month before the next term of the court, submit to each of the other judges who sat in the cause, a copy of the opinion or opinions so prepared by him or them.

(Adopted January 22, 1902.)

SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE.

Amendment to Rule V.

That paragraph 6 of rule 5 of the Superior Court of the state of Delaware be amended by adding to the end of said paragraph the following, viz.:

If by the return of the com.aissioner it shall appear that the taking of such oral testimony has not been completed, the court may remand the commission to the commissioner with like power and authority as were originally granted to such commissioner, returnable at such time as the court may direct.

(Adopted New Castle County, February Term, 1901.)

Amendments to Rule VII.

Upon the filing of a demurrer to any pleading the prothonotary shall forthwith enter joinder in demurrer, and the cause shall be placed on the trial list, as herein provided.

Any cause at issue on demurrer may be set down for argument at any time during a term of court, although said cause may not be published upon the trial list, upon ten days' written notice given by the party filing the demurrer, or upon five days' written no-, tice given by the party whose pleadings may be demurred to.

Amendments to Rule IX.

221⁄2. No commissioner in cases of divorce shall be appointed before the first Friday of the term to which the summons is returnable.

(Adopted New Castle County, February Term, 1901.)

29. In all actions where a nonsuit shall be granted, the plaintiff shall at that time be entitled, upon motion, to a rule to show cause why such nonsuit should not be set aside.

(Adopted February 26, 1897.)

Rule XIV.
Records.

1. No record, document or paper of any kind or description filed in or belonging to the office of the prothonotary shall hereafter be taken from the said office for any purpose whatsoever, except upon order of court. (Adopted January 8, 1896.)

Rule XV.
Pleadings.

1. A copy of any pleading or other paper, required to be filed in any cause or proceeding, shall be filed in the prothonotary's office together with said pleading or paper, and

Ordered, by the court, all the Justices, the following rule be established relative to thereof concurring, that the following rule be naturalization cases, to wit: established and promulgated as a rule of court, viz:

RULE.

Oral arguments before the law court, in cluding the reading of briefs and arguments in reply, are limited to one hour for each side unless for cause shown the court shall fix a longer time before the arguments are begun. Adopted December 20, 1902.

NATURALIZATION.

All the Justices being present, ordered, that

Every applicant for naturalization shall file with the Clerk of the Court his application in writing, according to the Statutes of the United States, thirty days before the term of the Court in that County at which his application is to be heard. The Clerk shall enter such application upon a special docket in the order of filing and shall, at the expense of the applicant, cause notice thereof to be published in some public newspaper published in the county of the applicant's residence fourteen days at least before such term.

Adopted June 29, 1903.