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...When the probate judge of any county is absent, or is unable to attend court, or the volume of work in the judge's office necessitates it, the judge may call upon a judge of the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in that county to act in the probate judge's place or in conjunction with the probate judge, or the probate judge may call upon the chief justice of the supreme court, who shall designate a judg...

...Letters testamentary, of administration, or of guardianship shall not be issued to a person after the person's election to the office of probate judge and before the expiration of the person's term. If a probate judge is interested as heir, legatee, devisee, or other manner in an estate that would otherwise be settled in the probate court of the county where the judge resides, the estate, and all of the account...

...If a probate judge allegedly has a bias or prejudice for or against a party or a party's counsel in a proceeding pending before the judge, allegedly otherwise is interested in a proceeding pending before the judge, or allegedly is disqualified to preside in the proceeding and if the bias, prejudice, interest, or disqualification does not permit or require certification of the proceeding to the court of common pleas a...

...A probate judge shall not in any way deal in property or securities involved in probate court cases. This section applies to all appointees of the probate court.

...No probate judge shall practice law, be associated with another as partner in the practice of law in a court or tribunal of this state, prepare a complaint or answer, make out an account required for the settlement of an estate committed to the care or management of another, or appear as attorney before a court or judicial tribunal. Whoever violates this section shall forfeit the office of probate judge. The ...

...From any final order, judgment, or decree of the probate court, an appeal on a question of law may be prosecuted to the court of appeals in the manner and within the time provided for the prosecution of such appeals from the court of common pleas to the court of appeals. For the purpose of prosecuting appeals on questions of law from the probate court, the probate court shall exercise judicial functions inferior only...

...Whenever ten per cent of the number of electors voting for governor at the most recent election in any county having less than sixty thousand population, as determined by the most recent federal census, petition a judge of the court of common pleas of the county, not less than ninety days before any general election for county officers, for the submission to the electors of the county the question of combining ...

...The election upon the question of combining the probate court and the court of common pleas shall be conducted as provided for the election of county officers. The board of elections shall provide separate ballots, tally sheets, blanks, stationery, and all such other supplies as may be necessary in the conduct of such election. Ballots shall be printed with an affirmative and negative statement thereon, as follows:...

...When the probate court and the court of common pleas have been combined as provided in sections 2101.43 and 2101.44 of the Revised Code, there shall be established in the court of common pleas a probate division and all matters of which the probate court has jurisdiction shall be filed and separately docketed in that division. The resident judge of the court of common pleas shall appoint the necessary deputies, clerk...

...After three years from the date of an election held under sections 2101.43 to 2101.45, inclusive, of the Revised Code, another election may be petitioned for and shall be ordered by the judge of the court of common pleas as provided in such sections either to perfect a combination of said court or to dissolve said combination and re-establish the probate court. Whenever in any county where such courts have been comb...

...(A) Whoever violates section 2101.09 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 2101.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 2101.41 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.

...(A) When the jury is sworn, unless for special reasons the court otherwise directs, the trial shall proceed in the following order except as provided in section 2315.02 of the Revised Code: (1) The plaintiff concisely shall state the plaintiff's claim, and briefly may state the plaintiff's evidence to sustain it. (2) The defendant briefly shall state the defendant's defense, and briefly may state the defendant'...

...If the court is of the opinion that it is proper for the jurors to have a view of property which is the subject of litigation, or of a place where a material fact occurred, it may order them to be conducted in a body under the charge of an officer to such property or place, which shall be shown to them by a person appointed by the court for that purpose. While the jurors are thus absent, no person, other than the per...

...When the case is submitted, the jury may decide it in court or retire to deliberate. Upon retiring, they must be kept together, in charge of an officer, at a convenient place, until they agree upon a verdict or are discharged by the court. The court may permit them temporarily to separate at night and for their meals.

...The officer in whose charge the jury is placed, as provided in section 2315.03 of the Revised Code, shall not communicate with them, nor allow anyone else to do so, unless by order of the court, except to ask if they have agreed upon their verdict. Such officer, before their verdict is rendered, shall not communicate to any person the state of their deliberations or the verdict agreed upon.

...Because of the sickness of a juror, or an accident or calamity which requires it, or with the consent of both parties, or after jurors have been kept together until it satisfactorily appears that there is no probability of their agreeing, the court may discharge the jury.

...When the jury is discharged during a trial or after a cause is submitted, such cause may at once be tried again, or on a future day, as the court directs.

...If by the verdict in a civil action tried to a jury any party in the action is entitled to recover money from an adverse party, the jury shall determine the amount of the recovery in its verdict.

...The provisions of this chapter that apply to trials by jury, apply to trials by the court.

...Parties to a question that might be the subject of a civil action, on filing an affidavit that the controversy is real and the proceeding in good faith to determine their rights, may agree upon a case containing the facts upon which the controversy depends and present a submission of it to any court of competent jurisdiction. The court shall hear and determine the case and render judgment as if an action were pendin...

...tort action; (b) All expenditures for medical care or treatment, rehabilitation services, or other care, treatment, services, products, or accommodations as a result of an injury or loss to person or property that is a subject of a tort action; (c) Any other expenditures incurred as a result of an injury or loss to person or property that is a subject of a tort action, other than attorney's fees incurred in conne...

...(A) Upon a post-judgment motion, a trial court in a tort action shall review the evidence supporting an award of compensatory damages for noneconomic loss that the defendant has challenged as excessive. That review shall include, but is not limited to, the following factors: (1) Whether the evidence presented or the arguments of the attorneys resulted in one or more of the following events in the determination of an...

... does not include a civil action upon a medical claim, dental claim, optometric claim, or chiropractic claim or a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or another agreement between persons. (2) "Medical claim," "dental claim," "optometric claim," and "chiropractic claim" have the same meanings as in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code. (3) "Product liability claim" has the same meaning as in section 23...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for injury or loss to person or property. (a) "Tort action" includes all of the following: (i) A product liability claim for damages for injury or loss to person or property that is subject to sections 2307.71 to 2307.80 of the Revised Code; (ii) A civil action based on an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment br...

...(A) Sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code do not apply to actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The contributory fault of the plaintiff may be asserted as an affirmative defense to a tort claim, except that the contributory fault of the plaintiff may not be asserted as an affirmative defense to an intentional tort claim.