Plan or Frame of Government for the Common Wealth or State of Pennsylvania

Section 4.

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Of the judicial power

The Judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, in a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court, Register’s Court, and a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for each county; in Justices of the Peace, and in such other Courts as the legislature may, from time to time, establish.

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Courts of Justice shall be Established in the City of Philadelphia and in every County of this State.