Title 23, Title 23. Courts-Common Pleas

Cases in which there is an issue of fact or damages to be assessed shall be tried in the order in which they stand on the trial docket, unless by the consent of parties, or by the order of the court, they are continued or placed at the end of the docket, or for good cause shown a…

The court may assign for trial the cases triable to a jury, in a series, in the order in which they stand upon the docket, giving preference always to actions for wages, actions pursuant to section 5903.02 of the Revised Code, and cases not triable to a jury, in a series in like …

The court at any time may hear a motion or demurrer and, by rule, prescribe the time of hearing motions and demurrers.

In any county where there are two or more judges, one of whom is disqualified to hear or try causes upon the trial docket, the causes may be assigned for trial or hearing in a series in the order in which they stand on the docket, by a judge qualified to try them, and be tried an…

Actions are triable at the first term of the court after the issues therein, by the times fixed for pleading, or should have been made up. When issues are or should have been made up during a term, such action shall be triable at the term. When issues are or should have been made…

(A)(1) Whenever because of a hearing, speech, or other impairment a party to or witness in a legal proceeding cannot readily understand or communicate, the court shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist such person.(2) This section is not limited to a person who speaks a l…

Unless otherwise provided, no action or proceeding pending in any court shall abate by the death of either or both of the parties thereto, except actions for libel, slander, malicious prosecution, for a nuisance, or against a judge of a county court for misconduct in office, whic…

If the plaintiff in an action for dower dies before final judgment therein, the action may be revived in the name of the personal representative of such plaintiff for the purpose of recovering the value of such dower, from the beginning of the action to the decedent's death.

An order to revive an action against the successor of a defendant, other than the executor or administrator, shall not be made without the consent of such successor, unless made within one year from the time it first could have been made.

An order to revive an action in the name of the representative or successor of a plaintiff may be made forthwith, but shall not be made, of right, without the consent of the defendant, after the expiration of one year from the time it might first have been made. When the powers o…

When a corporation having more than fifty stockholders is a party in an action pending in a county in which the corporation keeps its principal office, or transacts its principal business, if the opposite party makes affidavit that he cannot, as he believes, have a fair and impar…

In all civil actions in which the venue is changed, the clerk of the county to which such action has been sent, upon its termination in the courts of his county, shall make a full itemized bill of all costs and expenses of such action which have been paid out of the county treasu…

In any civil case pending in the court of common pleas of any county in which the parties are entitled to a trial by jury, if it appears that the board of county commissioners of the county in which the action is pending is a party to the action, the court, upon the application o…