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Distribution of business among the Judges of the Chancery and Probate Divisions of the High Court.
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47. Subject to any rules of Court, and in the meantime until such rules shall be made, all business arising out of any cause or matter assigned to the Chancery Division of the said High Court, or out of any testamentary or matrimonial cause or proceeding assigned to the Probate and Matrimonial Division, shall be transacted and disposed of in the first instance by one Judge only, as has been heretofore accustomed in the Court of Chancery, the Court of Probate, and the Court for Matrimonial Causes and Matters respectively; and every cause or matter which, at the commencement of this Act, may be depending in the Court of Chancery, the Court of Probate, the Court for Matrimonial Causes and Matters, and the Landed Estates Court respectively, shall (subject to the power of transfer) be assigned to the same Judge in or to whose Court the same may have been depending or attached at the commencement of this Act; and every cause or matter which after the commencement of this Act, may be commenced in the Chancery Division of the said High Court shall be assigned to one of the Judges thereof in the same manner as heretofore: Provided, that (subject to any rules of Court, and to the power of transfer) all causes and matters which, if this Act had not passed, would have been within the exclusive cognizance of the Court of Probate or the Court for Matrimonial Causes and Matters shall be assigned to the Judge of the Probate and Matrimonial Division for the time being, and all matters within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Landed Estates Court shall be assigned to the Land Judges.
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