OF THE

STATE OF
OF NEW YORK

PASSED AT THE

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD SESSION

OF THE

LEGISLATURE.

BEGUN JANUARY SIXTH AND ENDED MAY TWENTY-SEVENTH, 1880
IN THE CITY OF ALBANY.

Vol. II.

COMPRISING CHAPTER 178, BEING CHAPTERS FOURTEEN TO TWENTY-
TWO, BOTH INCLUSIVE, OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE,

AND CHAPTER 301, AMENDING THE SAME.

PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 522 OF THE LAWS OF 1880.

XCELSIOR

ALBANY:

WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1880.

CERTIFICATE.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

ALBANY, June 1, 1880.

Pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An act relative to the publication of the Laws," passed April 12, 1843, I hereby certify that the following volume of the Laws of this State was printed under my direction.

L
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396
1929

JOSEPH B. CARR,

Secretary of State.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER FOURTEENTH.

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Special provisions regulating actions relating to property...

TITLE I. Actions relating to real property..

ART. 1. Action of ejectment........

ART. 2. Action for partition...

ART. 3. Action for dower......

Sections

1496-1741

1496-1687

1496-1531

1532-1595

1596-1625

1626-1637

ART. 4. Action to foreclose a mortgage....

ART. 5. Action to compel the determination of a claim to real property. 1638-1650

ART. 6. Action for waste.....

1651-1659

ART. 7. Action for a nuisance...

1660-1663

ART. 8. Other actions relating to real property....

1664-1669

ART. 9. Provisions applicable to two or more of the actions specified

Special provisions, regulating other particular actions and rights of

action, and actions by or against particular parties.

ART. 4. Provisions applicable to two or more of the actions specified

TITLE II. Actions relating to a corporation.

1756-1761

1762-1767

1768-1774

.. 1775-1813

ART. 1. Action by a corporation, and action against a corporation, to

recover damages or property.....

1775-1780

ART. 2. Judicial supervision of a corporation, and of the officers and

members thereof..

1781-1783

ART. 3. Actions to procure the dissolution of a corporation, and

actions to enforce the individual liability of the officers or

members of a corporation, with or without a dissolution

thereof........

1784-1796

ART. 4. Action by the people to annul a corporation....

1797-1803

ART. 5. Provisions applicable to two or more of the actions specified

in this title...

1804-1813

TITLE III. Actions relating to the estate of a decedent....

ART. 1. Action by or against an executor or administrator....

ART. 2. Action by a creditor against his debtor's next of kin, legatee,

heir, or devisee.....

.....

ART. 3. Action to establish or impeach a will.....

ART. 4. General and miscellaneous provisions...

TITLE IV. Other special actions and rights of action....

ART. 1. Judgment creditor's action.....

ART. 2. Action by a private person upon an official bond....

ART. 3. Action by a private person for a penalty or forfeiture..

ART. 4. Certain actions to recover damages for wrongs...

ART. 5. Miscellaneous actions and rights of action.

TITLE V. Other actions by or against particular parties..

ART. 1. Action by or against an unincorporated association..

ART. 2. Actions by or against certain county, town, and municipal

officers..

ART. 3. Actions and rights of action against and between joint debtors.

CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.

Actions in behalf of the people, and special proceedings instituted,

in their behalf, by state writ.....

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

Sections.

1814-1870

1814-1836

1837-1860

1861-1867

1868-1870

1871-1918

1871-1879

1880-1892

1893-1898

1899-1908

1909-1918

1919-1947

1919-1924

1925-1931

-1932-1947

1948-2148

1948-1990

ART. 1. Action against the usurper of an office or franchise

ART. 2. Action to vacate letters-patent..

1948-1956

1957-1960

ART. 3. Action for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, or upon a forfeited

recognizance

1961-1968

ART. 4. Certain actions, founded upon the spoliation, or other misap-

propriation of public property....

1969-1976

ART. 5. Action to recover property escheated, or forfeited for treason.

ART. 6. Miscellaneous provisions, relating to actions, etc., in behalf of

the people

TITLE II. Special proceedings instituted by state writ..

ART. 1. Provisions applicable to two or more state writs.

ART. 2. The writ of habeas corpus, to bring up a person to testify....

ART. 3. The writ of habeas corpus, and the writ of certiorari, to inquire·

ART. 7. The writ of certiorari, to review the determination of an in-
ferior tribunal..

2120-2148

CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH,

Certain special proceedings instituted without writ.....

2149-2471

TITLE I. Proceedings relating to insolvent debtors and to pris-

oners..

2149-2230

ART. 1. Discharge of an insolvent from his debts....

2149-2187

ART. 2. Exemption from arrest, or discharge from imprisonment, of

an insolvent debtor.....

2188-2199