TITLE 9
Courts and Civil ProcedureProcedure Generally
CHAPTER 9-11
Superior Court Practice
SECTION 9-11-8
§ 9-11-8 County in which questions heard
and disposed of Intervention of jury.
All questions of pleading or practice, not arising in the trial of the case,
all motions, and all defaulted cases in the superior court shall be heard and
disposed of by the court for the county in which the action is pending;
provided, that all such matters arising in Newport, Kent, or Washington county
may, when the court is not sitting in the county, be heard and disposed of in
Providence, and, if, after judgment is rendered on motion or default, damages
are to be assessed, they shall be assessed by the court with the intervention
of a jury unless cause be shown why there should be no intervention of a jury.
History of Section.
(C.P.A. 1905, § 284; G.L. 1909, ch. 287, § 8; G.L. 1923, ch. 337,
§ 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 526, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 9-11-8; P.L. 1958,
ch. 61, § 1; P.L. 1965, ch. 55, § 22.)
