Title 15, Chapter 1, Section 3
( 15-1-3)
Every court has power: (1) To preserve and enforce order in its immediate presence and,
as near thereto as is necessary, to prevent interruption,
disturbance, or hindrance to its proceedings; (2) To enforce order before a person or body empowered to conduct
a judicial investigation under its authority; (3) To compel obedience to its judgments, orders, and process and
to the orders of a judge out of court in an action or proceeding
therein; (4) To control, in the furtherance of justice, the conduct of its
officers and all other persons connected with a judicial
proceeding before it, in every matter appertaining thereto; (5) To administer oaths in an action or proceeding pending therein
and in all other cases when it may be necessary in the exercise of
its powers and duties; (6) To amend and control its processes and orders, so as to make
them conformable to law and justice, and to amend its own records,
so as to make them conform to the truth; and (7) To correct its own proceedings before final judgment. |