SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. - COURTS AND OFFICERS THEREOF.

TITLE I-Courts of justice........

SECTIONS.

TITLE II.- Judges and other officers of the court...................................................

TITLE

CHAPTER II. — MINISTERIAL OFFICERS.

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1.- Execution of civil mandates.....................................................................

TITLE II.- Mandates against the person

TITLE III.- Coroners

TITLE IV.- Sheriffs..

1-45

46-49

100-109

110-171

172-181

182-189

TITLE

I.- Actions for recovery of real property........

TITLE II.- Actions other than for recovery of real property

TITLE III.- General provisions......

362-375

376-397

390-415

CHAPTER VI. — PLEADINGS.

TITLE I. Pleadings in civil actions...........

TITLE II- General provisions..

478-517

518-546

TITLE III.- Payment into court

743-754

TITLE IV.- Death or disability of party or transfer of interest. 755-766

TITLE V.- Motions and orders

767-779

TITLE VI.- Miscellaneous practice regulations

780-827

TITLE III.-Trial jurors....

963-1007

1008-1026

1027-1078

TITLE VI.- Miscellaneous provisions

TITLE IV.- Trial jurors in New-York and Kings counties...... 1079-1162

TITLE V.-Trial by jury

1163-1189

1190-1199

CHAPTER XI. JUDGMENTS.

TITLE

I.-Judgments in an action

1200-1272

TITLE II.- Judgments taken without process..

TITLE III.- Vacating or setting aside judgment

1273-1281

1282-1292

CHAPTER XV.-REGULATING PARTICULAR ACTIONS.

TITLE

TITLE

TITLE

TITLE

TITLE

L.-Matrimonial actions......

SECTIONS.

..............1742-1774

..1775-1813

II.-Actions relating to a corporation......

III.-Actions relating to the estate of a decedent.......1814-1870

IV. Other special actions and rights of action.......1871-1918

V.- Other actions by or against particular parties......1919-1947

CHAPTER XVI. ACTIONS BY STATE WRIT.

........1948-1990

TITLE I.-Actions in behalf of the people.......

TITLE II.-Special proceedings instituted by state writ......1991-2148

CHAPTER XVII.-PROCEEDINGS WITHOUT WRIT.

TITLE

I.-Proceedings relating to insolvent debtors and to

prisoners.

II.-Summary proceedings to recover the possession

of real property

.2149-2230

TITLE

.2231-2265

TITLE III.-Proceedings to punish a contempt of court, other

than a criminal contempt..

V.-Proceedings to discover the death of a tenant for

life

VI.-Proceedings for the appointment of a committee

of the person, and of the property, of a luna-

tic, idiot, or habitual drunkard; general pow-

ers and duties of the committee

TITLE VII.-Proceedings for the disposition of the real prop-

erty of an infant, lunatic, idiot, or habitual

drunkard

TITLE VIII.-Arbitrations

TITLE IX.- Proceedings to foreclose a mortgage by adver-

TITLE

TITLE

tisement..

X-Proceedings to change the name of an

individual or corporation....

XI.-Proceedings for the voluntary dissolution

of a corporation

TITLE XII.-Proceedings supplementary to an exe-

cution against property.

officer

TITLE XIII.-To compel delivery of books to public

TITLE

TITLE

....

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2320-2344

2345-2364

2365-238

.2387-2409

2410-2418

2419-2431

2432-2471

CHAPTER XVIII. SURROGATES' COURTS.

1.-Organization, Jurisdiction, and powers of the
court. Duties, powers, and disabilities of the

surrogate, and the officers of the court. Mis-

cellaneous provisions....

2471a

..2472-2514

II.-Provisions relating generally to the proceedings

in surrogates' courts, and to appeals from

those courts

TITLE III.-Granting and revoking probate, letters testa-

mentary, and letters of administration. For-

eign wills; ancillary letters...

.2515-2610

..2611-2705

TITLE IV.-Proceedings by or against an executor or admin-

istrator, touching the administration and

settlement of the estate......

V.-Disposition of the decedent's real property, for

the payment of debts and funeral expenses.

Distribution of the proceeds

VI.-Provisions relating to a testamentary trustee....2802-2820

CHAPTER XIX.-JUSTICES' COURTS.

III.-Pleadings; including counterclaims, and

ceedings upon answer of title..

TITLE IV. Proceedings between the joinder of issue and

SECTIONE

TITLE

TITLE

I.-Jurisdiction and general powers..

II. Commencement of action; appearance of

ties; provisional remedies.....

..2861-2875

par-

.2876-2933

TITLE

pro-

.2934-2958

the trial....

.2959-2987

.2988-3009

3010-3023

.3024-3043

.3044-3073

..3074-3081

.3082-3115

TITLE V.-Trial and its incidents.

TITLE VI. Judgment; and docketing the same.

TITLE VII.-Executions.......

X.-Action or special proceeding, relating to an ani-
mal straying upon the highway..

XI.-Provisions specially relating to courts of justices

of the peace in the city of Brooklyn

TITLE XII.-Miscellaneous provisions

CHAPTER XX.- CERTAIN COURTS.

I.-The city court of the city of New-York.........3159-3195

II. The mayor's court of the city of Hudson, and

the recorders' courts of the cities of Utica and

Oswego

......3196-3202

..3203-3208

III.-The city court of Yonkers

IV. The district courts of the city of N w-York, and

the justices' courts of the cities of Albany and

Troy

V.-The municipal court of the city of Rochester....3226-322

CHAPTER XXI.-COSTS AND FEES.

I.-Awarding and enforcing payment of costs

II.-Fixing the amount of costs................

III.-Security for costs......

3207-3223

.........3228-3250

.3251-3267

.3268-3279

TITLE IV. General provisions relating to fees......................3280-3295

TITLE V.-Suins allowed as fees

CHAPTER XXII.- DEFINITIONS AND REGULATIONS.

TITLE I.-General definitions, and rules of construction...3333-3343

TITLE II. Provisions regulating the effect and application

TITLE

TITLE

of this act .......................................................3344-3356

CHAPTER XXIII-- CONDEMNATION LAW.

..3357-3389

I. Proceedings for the condemnation of real prop-

erty.

II.-Proceedings for the sale of corporate real prop-

erty..

3390-3397

THE

Code of Civil Procedure

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS, OFFICERS OF JUSTICE, AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS.

PASSED June 2, 1876; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO COURTS, AND THE MEMBERS AND OFFICERS THEREOF.

-THE COURTS OF THE STATE; THEIR GENE

RAL POWERS AND ATTRIBUTES, AND
GENERAL REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO

THE EXERCISE THEREOF.

TITLE II. PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION, RELATING TO THE JUDGES, AND CERTAIN OTHER OFFICERS OF THE COURTS.