Circular sobre la resolución de una consulta del Gobernador de Bogotá sobre subrogación de jueces letrados

Abstract

The image contains a news item about the Circular on the resolution of a consultation of the Governor of Bogota on subrogation of judges of first instance, addressed to the gentlemen of each province and stipulating that according to the visit directed by the Governor of Bogota in relation to the lack of circuit judge the members of the Municipal Council of the canton in which the court resides must exercise their jurisdiction in the entire circuit, or only in the canton to which it corresponds, and then adds that in the case in which the other cantons that form the judicial circuit must appoint councilors to exercise the first instance judiciary in them, it must be taken into account: that the designation of judicial circuits is a duty of the Executive Power, at the moment of the designation the jurisdiction of the circuit court extends to the entire territory, the members of the Municipal Council of the head of the circuit, designated to exercise the judiciary are subrogates of the circuit judge. Finally, it is mentioned that the Municipal Councils of the other cantons included in the first instance, do not need to appoint councilors to subrogate the judge, but if this should occur, the first instance judgeship in the canton will be exercised when the circuit judge is absent. News published in El Registro Oficial de Departamento de Gobierno, March 17-1842