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months, and is not deposited for 
inspection till the day on which it 
is closed. The legislative body 
may prolong, according to circum. 
stances, the delay fixed for this de- 
posit. 
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General Dispositions. 
202. The judicial fun@ions can. 
not be exercised either by the le. 
gislative body or by the executive 
wer. 
203. The judges cannot interfere 
in the ekercise “of the legislative 
power, or make any regulation. 
They cannot stop or suspend the 
exccution of any Jaw, or summon 
before them administrators on ac. 
eount of their tunétions. 
zo4. No man can be withdrawn 
from the judges, whom the law 
assigns him, by any commission, or 
by any other attributions than those 
which are determined by an ante- 
rior law. 
205. Justice is administered gra. 
tvitously. 
206. The judges cannot bs : re. 
moved, but by forfeiture legally 
pronounced ; or suspended, but by 
an admitted accusation. . 
207, The ascendant > and de. 
scendant in dire line, brothers, 
uncle or nephew, cousins in the 
first degree, and connexions by al- 
Hance in these several degrees, 
cannot be’ members of the same 
tribunal at the same time. 
208. The sittings of the tribunals 
are public; the judges deliberate 
in secret; judgments are pro. 
nounced with a loud voice: reasons 
for them are assigned, and the terms 
of the law applied set forth. j 
209. No citizen, if he be not 
thirty years of ‘age compicte, can 
be elected judgeofa tribunal of de. 
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partment, or justice of peace, or 
assessor to a justice of peace, or 
judge of a tribunal of commerce, 
or memberof the tribunal of an- 
nilment, or juror, or commissary 
of the-executive direclory with the 
tribunals of-civil justice. 
210. There can be no infringe. 
ment of the right to cause differ- 
ences to be pronosineed upon by 
arbitrators of the chee of the oe 
ties. 
ay 144 The deckivg of these arbi. 
trators is without appeal, and with. 
out recourse to annulment, if the 
parties have not made an express 
reserve, 
212. There is in each distri 
determined by the law, a justice of 
peace and his assessors: they are 
all elected for) two years, and may 
be immediately and ‘indefinitely 
re-elected. 
213. The law determines the ob- 
jects of which justices of peace and 
their assessors take cognizance in 
dernier resort. It ateributes to 
them other matters of which they 
judge, subject to appeal, 
214. There are particular tribu- 
nals for commerce by land and sea : 
the law determines the places 
where it is useful to establish them. 
Their power of judging in dernier 
resort cannot be extended beyond 
the value ef 500 myriagrammes of 
wheat (102 quintals 22 pounds). 
215. The affairs, of which judg- 
ment belongs not to justices of 
peace, or tribunals of commerce, 
either in dernier resort, or subject 
to appeal, are carried immediately 
before the justice of peace and his 
assessors, to be conciliated. If the 
justice of peace’ cannot conciliate | 
them, he sends them before the cis 
vil tribunal. 
-ar6. There isa rel tribunal for 
every 
