The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York: Being Chapter 448 of the Laws of 1876, As Amended by Chapters 416 and 422 of the Laws of 1877, and As Further Amended by Chapters 63, 299 and 166 of the Laws of 1878 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York: Being Chapter 448 of the Laws of 1876, as Amended by Chapters 416 and 422 of the Laws of 1877, and as Further Amended by Chapters 63, 299 and 166 of the Laws of 1878

Sent herewith to the public a code which will have the etion of superseding one of such incontestable merit that pted bodily by at least one state of the Union, and served med%el for several others in revising their method of legal The ao-called Code of Remedial Justice, which was tring the first three weeks of last May, was unworthy of thrust upon it. It was crude and pedantic. It was an rpon the legal profession, which was almost unanimous in 1g it throughout the State. To the laborious efforts of a small number of men, com a of the judiciary committees of the Legislature, this code nought to a condition tolerable to the community. By system of remodeling - extending to the minutest details ling the restoration of many of the provisions of the old L1], in clearness and conciseness, could not be excelled at length prepared, making amendments to nearly every None of these can be said to be unnecessary; and when scams a law it met with universal approval. Way the work of revising the code of 1876, which we awaken, was one almost as difficult as the labor, which issioners imposed upon themselves, of revising the old have, however, been animated by the strong conviction.

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