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8-48-109 - Judicial vacancies filled from same grand division.

8-48-109. Judicial vacancies filled from same grand division.

Any vacancy in the office of supreme court or appeals court judge shall be filled by a person residing in the grand division of the state in which the vacancy occurs.

[Acts 1870, ch. 23, § 8; Shan., § 1156; mod. Code 1932, § 1917; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2809.]