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CHAPTER THIRD.
Sections.
Civil jurisdiction of the principal courts of record ; organization, members
and officers thereof; distribution and dispatch of business therein .......... 190–361
TITLE I. The court of appeals .........
.................. 190–216
Art. 1. Jurisdiction, and mode of exercising the same; general powers ;
terms and sittings ...................................
190-198
ART. 2. The clerk of the court.....
199-208
ART. 3. The State reporter ; publication and distribution of the reports.... 209-216
TITLE II. The supreme court, including the circuit courts.................. 217-262
ART. 1. Jurisdiction and powers; designation of terms; distribution of
business among the terms and judges ; attendants upon the sittings;
miscellaneous provisions ........
217-243
ART. 2. The supreme court reporter ....................
244-250
ART. 3. Stenographers, ...............
251-262
TITLE III. The superior city courts .........
263-313
ART. 1. Provisions applicable to all the superior city courts ........
263-285
ART. 2. Provisions exclusively applicable to the court of common pleas for
the city and county of New York, and the superior court of the city of
New-York ..........................................................
286-291
ART. 3. Provisions exclusively applicable to the superior court of Buffalo.. 292-306
ART. 4. Provisions exclusively applicable to the city court of Brooklyn.... 307-313
TITLE IV. The marine court of the city of New-York ......................... 314-339
TITLE V. The county courts.........
340–361
CHAPTER FOURTH.
Limitation of the time of enforcing a civil remedy ..........
362-415
TITLE I. Actions for the recovery of real property ....
362–375
TITLE II. Actions other than for the recovery of real property........... 376-397
Title III. General provisions......
........... 3984415
CHAPTER FIFTH.
Commencement of, and parties to an action..........
..... 416_477
TITLE I. Commencement of an action..............
.. 416-445
ART. 1. The surnmons and accompanying papers; personal service thereof;
appearance of the defendant....
416-434
ART. 2. Substitutes for personal service in special cases................... 435-445
TITLE II. Parties to an action .......
...........
446–477
ART. 1. Parties generally...................
446-453
ART. 2. Parties severally liable.........
454-457
ART. 3. Parties prosecuting and defending as poor persons.... ....
459 467
ART. 4. Infant plaintiffs and defendants........
468-477
.
CHAPTER SIXTH.
..........
Pleadings in courts of record, including counterclaims .........
Title I. The consecutive pleadings in an action........
478-486
487-499
ART. 1. Complaint .................................................
ART. 2. Demurrer .....................................................
AKT: 1. Compli
Sections
ART. 3. Answer.......
500-513
Art. 4. Reply ...........
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514-517
Title II. Provisions generally applicable to pleadings...................... 518-547
CHAPTER SEVENTH.
General provisional remedies in an action............
548–720
Title I. Arrest pending the action, and proceedings thereupon......... 548-601
ART. 1. Cases where an order of arrest may be granted, and persons liable
to arrest ......................
548–555
ART. 2. Granting, executing, and vacating or modifying the order of arrest, 556-572
ART. 3. Discharging the defandant upon bail or deposit; justification of the
bail, and disposition of the deposit.......
573-590
Art. 4. Charging and discharging bail..................................
591-601
TITLE II. Injunction ............................
.............................. 602-634
Art. 1. Cases where an injunction may be granted ; granting and service
of an injunction order........
602-610
ART. 2, Security ........
611-625
Art. 3. Vacating or modifying an injunction order.......................
626-634
TITLE III. Attachment of property................................................. 635-712
ART. 1. Cases where a warrant of attachment may be granted; and pro-
ceedings upon granting the same .....................................
635-642
ART. 2. Executing the warrant pending the action .......................
643-681
Art. 3. Vacating or modifying the warrant; discharging the attachment.. 682-696
Art. 4. Regulations where there are two or more warrants against the
same defendant ................................................
697-705
Art. 5. Proceedings after judgment; rights of parties and duties of the
sheriff, after the warrant is vacated or annulled, or the attachment dis-
charged ........................
706-712
TITLE IV. Other provisional remedies; general and miscellaneous pro-
713-720
ART. 1. Receivers .....................
713-716
..
ART. 2. Deposit, delivery, or conveyance of property.....................
717-718
ART. 3. General and miscellaneous provisions..............
719-720
visions........
CHAPTER EIGHTH.
Miscellaneous interlocutory proceedings and regulations of practice........... 721-827
Title I. Mistakes, omissions, defects, and irregularities................. 721-730
Title II. Tender, and other offers and requests to the adverse party, 731-742
TITLE III. Payment of money into court, and care and disposition
thereof ................................................................................... 743–754
Title IV. Proceedings upon the death or disability of a party, or the
transfer of his interest.
............ 755–766
TITLE V. Motions and orders generally.....
767-779
TITLE VI. Miscellaneous practice regulations............
780-827
ART. 1. General regulations respecting time. .........
780-788
ART. 2. Preferred and deferred causes.................................
789-795
ART. 3. Service of papers.............................................
796-802
Art. 4. Discovery of books and papers..................................
803-809
Art. 5. General regulations respecting bonds and undertakings......... 810-816
ART. 6. Other matters......
817-827
CHAPTER NINTH.
Evidence ..........
Title I. General regulations respecting evidence, and the competency
and mode of examination of a witness ........
ART. 1. Competency of a witness ; evidence in particular cases...........
Art. 2. Administration of an oath or affirmation .......
Title II. Compelling the attendance and testimony of a witness....
Title III. Depositions .....
ART. 1. Depositions, taken and to be used within the State..........
Art. 2. Depositions, taken without the State, for use within the State ......
ART. 3. Depositions, taken within the State, for use without the State .....
TITLE IV. Documentary evidence..........
.........
Art. 1. Documentary evidence as a substitute for oral testimony..........
ART. 2. Proof of a document, executed or remaining within the State......
ART. 3. Proof of a document, remaining in a court or public office of the
United States, or executed or remaining without the State...............
TITLE V. Miscellaneous provisions .........
CHAPTER TENTH.
Trials ; including jurors and juries.......
963–1199
TITLE I. Trials generally, including exceptions and motion for a new
trial .................................
........
963-1007
Art. 1. Issues, and the mode of trial thereof ...............
963-981
Art. 2. The place of trial .............................................
982-991
ART. 3. Exceptions, cases, and motions for a new trial ......
992-1007
TITLE II. Trials without a jury............
........... 1008-1026
TITLE III. Trial jurors, except in New-York and Kings counties;
mode of selecting them, and of procuring their attendance........... 1027-1078
ART. 1. Qualifications and exemptions of trial jurors ................... 1027-1034
ART. 2. Mode of selecting, drawing and procuring the attendance of
trial jurors in ordinary cases, .......................................
1035-1062
ART. 3. Mode of striking and procuring a special jury, and of procuring
a foreign jury ......................................................
1063-1071
ART. 4. Penalties for non-attendance...................................
1072-1078
TITLE IV. Trial jurors in New-York and Kings counties; mode of
selecting them, and of procuring their attendance...................... 1079–1162
ART. 1. Provisions relating to trial jurors in the city and county of New-
York.
.... 1079-1125
ART. 2. Provisions relating to trial jurors in the County of Kings........ 1126-1162
TITLE V. Trial by jury.......
........ 1163-1189
ART. 1. Formation of the jury ........................................ 1163-1180
ART. 2. The verdict .....
................................. 1181-1189
TITLE VI. Miscellaneous provisions; including those relating to
embracery, and other acts of misconduct .............. ....... 1190–1199
CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
Judgments .....
Title I. Judgment in an action...........
ART. 1. General provisions.......
1200–1292
1200-1272
1200-121)
..................................
.......... ...........
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ART. 2. Mode of taking, entering, and enforcing a judgment........ 1212-1244
ART. 3. Docketing a judgment; effect thereof as a lien upon real prop-
erty ; suspending and discharging the lien ; satisfaction and assign-
ment of a judgment............
1245-1272
TITLE II. Judgment taken without process..........
1273–1281
Art. 1. Confession of judgment...........
1273-1278
Art. 2. Submission of a controversy upon facts admitted............... 1279-1281
Title III. Vacating or setting aside a judgment, for irregularity or
error in fact........
... 1282–1292
CHAPTER TWELFTH.
Appeals..........
1293-1361
Title I. General provisions, relating to the appeals provided for in
this chapter.............
........... 1293-1323
Title II. Appeal to the court of appeals.................................... 1324–1339
Title III. Appeal to the supreme court from an inferior court......... 1340–1345
Title IV. Appeal to the general term of the supreme court, or of a
superior city court ................
.......................... 1346-1355
TITLE V. Appeal from a final determination in a special proceeding, 1356-1361
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. .
Executions .........
.. 1362–1495
Title I. Forms of execution ; time and manner of issuing an execu-
tion; general duties and liabilities of officers......
...... 1362–1388
TITLE II. Execution against property...............
.......... 1389-1486
ART. 1. Property exempt from levy and sale ..............
1389-1404
ART. 2. Lien of an execution upon personal property ; levy upon and
sale of personal property ; rights of indemnitors of sheriff .....
1403-1429
Art. 3. Sale, redemption, and conveyance of real property; rights and
liabilities of persons interested.................
1430-1478
ART. 4. Remedies for failure of title to real property sold, and to enforce
contribution......
1479-1486
Title III. Execution against the person.......
....... 1487–1495
PORTIONS OF THE CODE OF PROCEDURE NOT EXPRESSLY REPEALED
IN 1877.
CHAPTER 449 OF 1876.
An act explaining, defining, etc. the Code of Civil Procedure.
CHAPTER 318 OF 1877.
An act suspending the operation of parts of chapters 448 and 449 of the laws
of 1876.
CHAPTER 417 OF 1877.
The repealing act.