Judicial Proceedings, Officers and Rules of Courts. Of courts of general jurisdiction, their judges ; Gilliland v. Adm'r of Sellers, 2 Ohio St. 223 ; Cincinnati, I., St. L. & C. Ry. Co. v. Grames, 8 Ind. App. 112, 34 N. E. 613, 37 N. E. 421; their seals, regular terms, rules, and maxims in the administration of justice and course of proceeding; Newell v. Newton, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 470 ; Lindsay v. Williams, 17 Ala. 229 ; the resignation of a circuit judge; Ex parte Peterson, 33 Ala. 74 (but not of attorneys of a district court not members of the supreme court bar ; Clark v. Morrison, 5 Ariz. 349, 52 Pac. 985 ; and not as to whether a party is a citizen of the United States ; State v. Ins. Co., 70 Conn. 590, 40 Atl. 465, 66 Am. St. Rep. 138) ; that a person appearing as an attorney is rep larly. licensed, -noticed ; Ferris v. Bank, 158 Ill. 237, 41 N. ; that it is not infre quent in divorce proceedings for parties to agree on details of alimony ; Whitney v. Elevator & Warehouse Co., 183 Fed. 678, 106
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Records of Proceedings. A court is not bound to take notice of any legal proceed ings other than those then before it, but courts often take notice of some part of a judicial proceeding without requiring formal evidence, for reasons of convenience, where controversy is unlikely ; see Wigm. Ev. § 2579; it will take judicial notice of its own records in a former case between the same parties.
Notorious Miscellaneous Facts, Geography, Convnierce, Industry, History, Natural Sci ence, etc. Courts will take judicial notice of the 'general geographical features of their own country, or state, and of their judicial district, as to the existence and location of its principal mountains, rivers, and cities; Parker v. State, 133 Ind. 178, 32 N. E. 836, 33 N. E. 119, 18 L. R. A. 567; People v. Wood, 131 N. Y. 617, 30 N. E. 243 ; Linck v. City of Litchfield, 141 Ill. 469, 31 N. E. 123 ; Mutu al Ben. Life Ins. Co. v. Robison, 58 Fed. 723,