Arizona Constitution
Article XXII
shall be continued and transferred to the court of the State, or of the United States, having
jurisdiction thereof.
6. Territorial, district, county, and precinct officers
Section 6. All Territorial, district, county, and precinct officers who may be in office at
the time of the admission of the State into the Union shall hold their respective offices
until their successors shall have qualified, and the official bonds of all such officers shall
continue in full force and effect while such officers remain in office.
7. Causes pending in district courts of territory; records, papers, and property
Section 7. Whenever the judge of the superior court of any county, elected or appointed
under the provisions of this Constitution, shall have qualified, the several causes then
pending in the district court of the Territory, and in and for such county, except such
causes as would have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States courts,
had such courts existed at the time of the commencement of such causes within such
county, and the records, papers, and proceedings of said district court, and other property
pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the superior court of
such county.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of the district court having custody of such papers,
records, and property, to transmit to the clerk of said superior court the original papers in
all cases pending in such district and belonging to the jurisdiction of said superior court,
together with a transcript, or transcripts, of so much of the record of said district court as
shall relate to the same; and until the district courts of the Territory shall be superseded in
manner aforesaid, and as in this Constitution provided, the said district courts, and the
judges thereof, shall continue with the same jurisdiction and powers, to be exercised in
the same judicial district, respectively, as heretofore, and now, constituted.
8. Probate records and proceedings
Section 8. When the State is admitted into the Union, and the superior courts, in their
respective counties, are organized, the books, records, papers, and proceedings of the
probate court in each county, and all causes and matters of administration pending
therein, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the superior court of the same
county created by this Constitution, and the said court shall proceed to final judgment or
decree, order, or other determination, in the several matters and causes with like effect as
the probate court might have done if this Constitution had not been adopted.
9. Causes pending in supreme court of territory; records, papers, and property
Section 9. Whenever a quorum of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State shall
have been elected, and qualified, and shall have taken office, under this Constitution, the
causes then pending in the Supreme Court of the Territory, except such causes as would
have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States courts, had such courts
existed at the time of the commencement of such causes, and the papers, records, and
proceedings of said court, and the seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass
into the jurisdiction and possession of the Supreme Court of the State, and until so
superseded, the Supreme Court of the Territory, and the judges thereof, shall continue,
with like powers and jurisdiction as if this Constitution had not been adopted, or the State