Distinction Between Court and Judge. — 7 Cal.Jur.2d. 578, §3

While a judge is essential to a court, the judge of a court is not the court. A court is an incorporeal entity, distinct from the persons of the officers through whom its business is conducted. The existence of a court does not depend upon the vacancy or incumbency of the officers through which it is accustomed to act. …Upon the same theory, a court comes into existence immediately upon the taking effect of a constitutional provision;…