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The Essex County Government Complex is located in Newark, the country seat of Essex County, New Jersey, U.S. at west of end of Market Street in Downtown.It is home to the Essex County Executive, the Board of County Commissioners, and the constitutional officers of the county: the County Clerk, the County Surrogate, and the County Sheriff as well as the County Register.
The New Jersey Superior Court subsumed and replaced the New Jersey County Courts, which were abolished in 1978. [1] The Superior Court has 15 vicinages (jurisdictional districts or circuits ), some encompassing two or three counties, each of which has its own courthouse or courthouses.
New Jersey was governed by two groups of proprietors as two distinct provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey, between 1674 and 1702.New Jersey's first counties were created as administrative districts within each province, with East Jersey split in 1675 into Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, while West Jersey's initial counties of Burlington and Salem date to 1681.
Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is one of the centrally located counties in the New York metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's second-most populous county, [7] with a population of 863,728, [5] [8] its highest decennial count since the 1970 census and an increase of 79,759 (+10.2%) from the 2010 census count of ...
The Essex County Courthouse is located at the Essex County Government Complex in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1904 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1975, for its significance in art and architecture.
The Judiciary of New Jersey comprises the New Jersey Supreme Court as the state supreme court and many lower courts.. New Jersey's judiciary is unusual in that it still separates cases at law from those in equity, like its neighbor Delaware but unlike most other U.S. states; however, unlike Delaware, the courts of law and equity are formally "divisions" of a single unified lower court of ...
For Sussex County-wide positions, incumbent Gary Chisano is running unopposed for a five-year term as county surrogate. The Surrogate Court oversees probating of wills and in the absence of a will ...
The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with statewide trial and appellate jurisdiction.The New Jersey Constitution of 1947 establishes the power of the New Jersey courts: under Article Six of the State Constitution, "judicial power shall be vested in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other courts of limited jurisdiction."