The associate justices shall have precedence in their respective courts according to the dates of their commissions, or when the commission of two or more of them bear the same date, according to their ages. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 31; G.L. 1909, ch. 274, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 324, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 497, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 8-3-2.
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