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Rule 445. Mandate to Issue in Twelve Months

TEXT

In cases which have been reversed and remanded by a Court of Civil Appeals, if no mandate shall have been taken out and filed in the court where the cause originated within one year after the motion for rehearing is overruled or final judgment rendered, then upon the filing in the court below of a certificate of the clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals where the cause was pending that no mandate has been taken out, the case shall be dismissed from the docket.

Source: Art. 1867, unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.

Repealed by order of July 11, 1977, eff. Jan. 1, 1978.