16-6-16. Court always open for business--Place of hearings and determinations.The circuit court is always open for the purposes of hearing and determining all actions, special proceedings, motions, and applications of whatever kind or character, and whether of a civil or criminal nature, arising under the laws of the state and of which it has jurisdiction, original or appellate, except issues of fact in civil and criminal actions, and all such actions, special proceedings, motions, and applications may be heard and determined at any place within the judicial circuit in which is situated the county wherein the same is brought or is pending, except as provided in §16-6-17. Source: SL 1887, ch 81, §1; CL 1887, §4828; RCCivP 1903, §33; RC 1919, §2117; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §33.0801.
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