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The New Jersey Court of Common Pleas was a civil court of general jurisdiction, which existed in New Jersey from 1704 until 1947. The Court of Common Pleas was established by an ordinance promoted by New Jersey's first royal governor Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury , and modeled on a similar ordinance passed in New York in the previous decade. [ 1 ]
New Jersey Superior Court (including the Appellate Division; 15 vicinages) [2] New Jersey Tax Court [3] New Jersey Municipal Courts (including Joint Municipal Courts and the Court of the Palisades Interstate Park) [4] Federal courts located in New Jersey. United States District Court for the District of New Jersey [5] Former federal courts of ...
The New Jersey Superior Court is divided into Law and Chancery Divisions at the trial level. However, unlike Delaware, the Law and Chancery Divisions exchange judges relatively freely; they can be and are moved to the other division as needed.
He received a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1993. [1] He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1993 and the New York Bar in 1994. He has been an attorney at the Fort Lee law firm Dario Yacker Suarez & Albert. [1] Suarez was elected to the Ridgefield Borough Council in 1998, and was reelected to the Council in 2001.
NJSBA is the publisher of New Jersey Lawyer. It shares New Jersey Law Center with the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, the association's educational division, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey, the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program and the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism. [3]
The only remaining courts retaining the name "court of common pleas" are therefore in the United States: the Courts of Common Pleas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Delaware. Of these, the first two are superior trial courts of general jurisdiction , the third is the civil division of the superior trial court of general jurisdiction ...
Pursuant to common law tradition, the courts of New Jersey have developed a large body of case law through the decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court, New Jersey Tax Court and trial courts. The published opinions of New Jersey's courts are contained in three different sets of books.
There are 21 counties in the state of New Jersey. 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.