Article VIII.
Judicial Department

Section 13. Disqualification of Judges

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Disqualification of Judges

Disqualification of Judges

Except by consent of all the parties, no judge of the supreme or inferior courts shall preside in the trial of any cause where either of the parties shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity within the degree of first cousin, or in which he may have been of counsel, or in the trail of which he may have presided in any inferior court.

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