The Rules of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, AND THE SPECIAL RULES OF THE SEVERAL COURTS OF THE As Amended to May, 21 1875. ALBANY, N. Y. 15 JOHN D. PARSONS, JR. 1875. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, BY JOHN D. PARSONS. JR., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. JUN 9 . 1931 WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, The amendments of 1875 are as follows, and will be found in italics: Section 179, page 77. Section 227, page 91. Section 228, page 92. Section 238, page 97. THE CODE OF PROCEDURE. As Amended to 1875. AN ACT to amend the act entitled An act to Simplify and Abridge the Practice, Pleadings, and Proceedings of the Courts of this state," passed April 12, 1848. Passed April 11, 1849. The act entitled "An act to simplify and abridge the practice, pleadings, and proceedings of the courts of this state," passed April 12, 1848, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: AN ACT to Simplify and Abridge the Practice, Pleadings and Proceedings of the courts of this state. WHEREAS, it is expedient that the present forms of actions and pleadings in cases at common law should be abolished, that the distinction between legal and equitable remedies should no longer continue, and that an uniform course of proceeding in all cases, should be established: Therefore, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: General Definitions and Divisions. 1. Remedies in the courts of justice are divided into, 1. Actions. 2. Special proceedings. 2. An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which a party prosecutes another party A |