ARTICLE IV. JUDICIARY
- § 1. Creation of courts
- § 2. Justices of Supreme Court and other State Judges; qualifications; residence; precedence
- § 3. Appointment of judges; terms of office; vacancies; political representation; confirmation of appointment
- § 4. Compensation of judges; method of payment; receipt of other fees or holding other office
- § 5. Composition of Superior Court; presiding judge; quorum
- § 6. Sessions of Superior Court
- § 7. Jurisdiction of Superior Court
- § 7A. Jurisdiction of Family Court
- § 7B. Jurisdiction of Court of Common Pleas
- § 8. Definitions of particular terms
- § 9. Jurisdiction of Orphans' Court
- § 10. Composition and jurisdiction of Court of Chancery; initiation and decisions in causes and proceedings
- § 11. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court
- § 12. Composition of Supreme Court; designation of temporary Justices; quorum; opening and adjourning court
- § 13. Administrative head of courts; supervisory powers; designation of judges to sit in Court of Chancery, or the Superior Court
- § 14. Power of law judges to grant restraining orders and preliminary injunctions
- § 15. Judges ad litem; limitation and expiration of commission; compensation; persons not disqualified
- § 16. Scope of jurisdiction and process; costs
- § 17. Jurisdictional changes by General Assembly; appeals to Supreme Court
- § 18. Powers of Chancellor, Vice-Chancellors and Judges
- § 19. Instructions to jury
- § 20. Trial by court of issues of fact in civil causes
- § 21. Amendments in civil pleadings and proceedings by Superior Court; examination of witnesses and parties
- § 22. Payment into court pending action for debt or damages; costs
- § 23. Survival of action; executor or administrator as party; continuance
- § 24. Security for stay of proceedings on appeal or writ of error
- § 25. Chief Register in Chancery: appointment; powers and duties
- § 26. Prothonotary as Clerk of Superior Court; powers and duties; entry of testatum fieri facias
- § 27. Clerk of Supreme Court; term of office and compensation
- § 28. Criminal jurisdiction of inferior courts and justices of the peace; regulation of jurisdiction; indictment; jury trial; appeals
- § 29. Justices of the Peace; term of office; powers of the Chief Magistrate and Justices of the Peace
- § 30. Justices of the Peace, Chief Magistrate, and judges of legislative courts; appointment by Governor; terms of office
- § 31. Registers of Wills; depositions of witnesses; process; appeals to Court of Chancery; disqualification of Register for interest
- § 32. Adjustment and settlement of executors' and administrators' accounts; notice; hearing of exceptions in Court of Chancery; transfer of jurisdiction; appeals
- § 33. Style of process and public acts; prosecutions in name of State
- § 34. Continuation in office and designation of certain judicial officers
- § 34A. Continuation in office and designation of judicial officers of the Family Court and the Court of Common Pleas
- § 35. Proceedings pending at time of 1951 amendment; books, records and papers; effect of amended article on Court of Chancery
- § 36. Abolition of Orphans' Court; transfer of jurisdiction and powers
- § 37. Court on the Judiciary
- § 38. Retired Judges and Justices; temporary assignment
- § 39. Senior judges