N.M. Const. art. VI, § 18
- Constitution
- Constitution of New Mexico
- Text as of
- October 2026
What does this section say?
[Disqualification of judges or magistrates.] No justice, judge or magistrate of any court shall, except by consent of all parties, sit in any cause in which either of the parties are related to him by affinity or consanguinity within the degree of first cousin, or in which he was counsel, or in the trial of which he presided in any inferior court, or in which he has an interest. (As amended November 8, 1966.)
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