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The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. They are the only trial courts created by the Ohio Constitution (in Article IV, Section 1). The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas.
Ross County was formed by proclamation of Governor St. Clair, August 20, 1798, being the sixth county formed in the Northwest Territory. [5]Ross County was described by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis as having almost "one hundred enclosures of various sizes, and five hundred mounds" in their book, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848).
A court of common pleas is a common kind of court structure found in various common law jurisdictions. The form originated with the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, [citation needed] which was created to permit individuals to press civil grievances against one another that did not involve the King.
After the War, Minshall began a practice in Chillicothe, and was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ross County. In 1877, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas to fill a vacancy, and elected to a full terms in 1878 and 1883. [1] In 1885, the Republicans nominated George W. McIlvaine to a fourth five-year term on the Ohio Supreme Court ...
The E. Ross Adair Federal Building, seat of the Fort Wayne division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Indiana Supreme Court [112] Indiana Court of Appeals (5 districts; previously Indiana Appellate Court) [113] Indiana Tax Court [114] Indiana Circuit Courts (91 circuits) [115] [116] Indiana Superior Courts (177 ...
Three Summit County Common Pleas Court judge seats are up for election Nov. 5, but only two of those are contested. Judge Kathryn Michael is running unopposed to keep her seat on the bench.
The Second Subdivision covered Highland, Fayette, Madison, Ross and Pickaway counties. He was reelected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1899. Walters took his seat on the Court of Common Pleas for Washington County in February 1891 and had been a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888.
Cases in the Common Pleas Court are heard in Putnam County's main courtroom, located on the building's third floor. [3] Other offices located in the courthouse include those of the county commissioners, the county auditor , the Clerk of Courts , the county engineer , and the county prosecutor . [ 6 ]