[1] Writ of Review — Final Adjudication of Subject Matter Necessary.—Review of a proceeding had by an inferior tribunal through a writ of certiorari should not be allowed unless in such a proceeding there has been a final adjudication or determination of the subject matter thereof.

[2] Id.—Contempt Proceedings—Order to Judgment Debtor not Final.—An order directing a judgment debtor to appear before a referee to answer on oath concerning his property does not constitute a final order in a contempt proceeding instituted against such judgment debtor for failing to obey such order.

1. Certiorari to review contempt proceedings, note, Ann. Oas. 1914D, 216.

[3] Id.—Jurisdiction of Superior Court—Right to Exercise to Pinal Judgment.—Whether such contempt proceedings are instituted under the provisions of section 714 or those of section 715 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the superior court has jurisdiction to hear and determine such proceedings, and such court, on all proper occasions, is to be permitted without interruption to exercise such jurisdiction until its judgment, following from the employment of the power given it by the statute in that respect, has become final.

[4] Id.—Errors Affecting Jurisdiction — When Review able on Certiorari.—Error may be committed in the steps essential to the starting in operation of the jurisdiction vested by law in superior courts of certain proceedings, yet, notwithstanding such error, such court must be permitted to proceed to a final determination of the matter, and then, if it should appear that the court has not correctly followed the course marked out by the statute to put in motion its jurisdiction and it appears that there is no adequate remedy at law, the party suffering from the final adjudication may have the proceeding reviewed through a writ of certiorari.

[5] Id.—Special Proceedings—Omission of Jurisdictional Requirements—Review of Error.—The fact that a given proceeding is special in its nature and that, therefore, every step necessary to its consummation is jurisdictional, does not give the party aggrieved the right to stop the proceeding and have the error reviewed through a writ of certiorari if the inferior tribunal omits to observe any of the essential facts necessary to start its jurisdiction in motion. j