Title XXXV CIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS Chapter 509 Effective - 28 Aug 1943 509.380. Place of hearing. — All motions may be heard and other acts or proceedings, except trials upon the merits, may be done or conducted by a judge in chambers, without the attendance of the clerk or other court officials and at any place either within or without the county; but no hearing, other than one ex parte, shall be conducted outside the county without the consent of all parties affected thereby. -------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 70)
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