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...ll material acts and proceedings of the court. If items of an account, or copies of papers attached to pleadings are voluminous, the court may order the record to be made by abbreviating them or inserting a pertinent description of them, or by omitting them entirely. Evidence shall not be recorded.

...judicial acts or other proceedings of a court have not been regularly brought up and recorded by the clerk, such court may have them made up and recorded within such time as it directs. When made up, and found to be correct, the presiding judge shall sign them.

...tion; (B) In actions in which, in open court, at the term at which the final order or judgment is made, both parties declare their agreement that no record shall be made.

...filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the real property or any part of the real property is situated. Upon payment of the fees prescribed by division (W) of section 2303.20 of the Revised Code, the copy shall be admitted to record and shall be numbered, docketed, indexed, and filed in the same manner and shall have the same effect as a similar record of a local action or...

...When deemed necessary, the court, by order on the journal, may direct its clerk to transcribe any book in his office into a new volume, and the transcript so made shall be as valid as the original.

...When an action has been dismissed without prejudice to a future action, the clerk shall make a complete record of the proceedings, upon being paid therefor by the party requesting it.

...The clerk shall keep, either as part of the general index or as a separate one, an index, direct and reverse, of all judgments, by names of parties alphabetically arranged, showing in separate columns the name of the judgment debtor, the name of the judgment creditor, the amount of the judgment and the year and term when it was rendered, the page of the journal on which it is entered, the volume and page of the final...

..., the clerk shall receive and file the civil action or proceeding. If the court approves the application, the clerk shall waive the cash deposit or the security under this section, and the court shall proceed on the action or proceeding. If the court denies the application, the clerk shall retain the filing of the civil action or proceeding, and the court shall issue an order granting the applicant whose applicatio...

...n advance deposit for the filing of any civil action or proceeding or of any responsive action by the defendant. On the motion of any party, and if satisfied that such deposit is insufficient, the court may require it to be increased from time to time, so as to secure all costs that may accrue in the cause, or may require personal security to be given. However, if a party makes an application to be qualified as an...

...gant, the applicant shall file with the court in which a civil action or proceeding is filed an affidavit of indigency in a form approved by the supreme court, or, until that court approves such a form, a form that requests substantially the same financial information as the financial disclosure and affidavit of indigency form used by the public defender for the appointment of counsel in a criminal case. (2) The ap...

...Sections 2323.30 and 2323.31 of the Revised Code do not require administrators or executors to give security for costs in any suit commenced or prosecuted by them in the county in which they have been appointed or qualified, and in which they have given bond as such.

...ndant, and notice to the plaintiff, the court shall dismiss the action, unless in a reasonable time, which it may allow, security is given. (B) This section does not apply if a party makes an application under section 2323.30 or 2323.31 of the Revised Code to qualify as an indigent litigant as set forth in section 2323.311 of the Revised Code.

...If the plaintiff becomes a nonresident of the county in which the suit is brought, during its pendency, he may be compelled, in the manner stated in sections 2323.30 to 2323.33, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to give security.

...e plaintiff, the defendant may move the court for additional security. On such motion if the court is satisfied that the surety has removed from this state, or is not sufficient, the action may be dismissed, unless, in a reasonable time, to be fixed by the court, sufficient security is given.

...er ten days' notice of such motion, the court may render judgment in the name of the defendant, or his legal representatives, against the surety, his executors, or administrators, for the amount of costs adjudged against the plaintiff, or so much thereof as is unpaid. Execution may be issued on such judgment, as in other cases, for the use and benefit of the persons entitled to such costs.

...(A) In any civil action upon a medical, dental, optometric, or chiropractic claim, the defendant may introduce evidence of any amount payable as a benefit to the plaintiff as a result of the damages that result from an injury, death, or loss to person or property that is the subject of the claim, except if the source of collateral benefits has a mandatory self-effectuating federal right of subrogation, a contractual ...

...etric claim, or chiropractic claim, the court shall conduct a hearing regarding the existence or nonexistence of a reasonable good faith basis upon which the particular claim is asserted against the moving defendant. The defendant shall file the motion not earlier than the close of discovery in the action and not later than thirty days after the court or jury renders any verdict or award in the action. After the moti...

...A person licensed in another state to practice medicine, who testifies as an expert witness on behalf of any party in this state in any action against a physician for injury or death, whether in contract or tort, arising out of the provision of or failure to provide health care services, shall be deemed to have a temporary license to practice medicine in this state solely for the purpose of providing such testimony a...

...revails with respect to that claim, the court in a nonjury trial shall make findings of fact, and the jury in a jury trial shall return a general verdict accompanied by answers to interrogatories, that shall specify all of the following: (1) The total compensatory damages recoverable by the plaintiff; (2) The portion of the total compensatory damages that represents damages for economic loss; (3) The portion of...

...ommon law. (6) "Tort action" means a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person. "Tort action" includes any claim for damages for injury, death, or loss to person, whether or not a lawsuit is pending, or a claim in connection with uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, but does not include a civil action for breach of contract or another agreement between persons. (B) Notwithstanding any contract or...

...ant to rule 10(D) of the Rules of Civil Procedure, an affidavit of merit relative to each defendant named in the complaint or a motion to extend the period of time to file an affidavit of merit. (C) The parties may conduct discovery as permitted by the Rules of Civil Procedure. Additionally, for the period of time specified in division (D)(2) of this section, the parties may seek to discover the existence or identi...

...When a summons is issued to another county, it may be returned by mail, and the sheriff shall be entitled to the same fees as if it had issued in the county of which he is sheriff.

... the superintendent of insurance, under rules adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for purposes of implementing this division, determines is licensed to do business in this state and, considering the factors described in this division, is a stable insurance company that issues annuities that are safe and desirable. In making determinations as described in this division, the superintendent shall be gui...

... the superintendent of insurance, under rules adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for purposes of implementing this division, determines is licensed to do business in this state and, considering the factors described in this division, is a stable insurance company that issues annuities that are safe and desirable. In making determinations as described in this division, the superintendent shall be gu...

...In any tort action to which section 2323.55 or 2323.56 of the Revised Code does not apply, if a plaintiff makes a good faith claim against a defendant for future damages, the trier of fact shall return a general verdict and, if that verdict is in favor of the plaintiff, answers to interrogatories or findings of fact that specify both of the following: (A) The past damages recoverable by that plaintiff; (B) The futu...