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3 The additional uiges of the court of common pleas of the day and wung of New York, 10 de einevad pursuant to this act, shall enter upon their offeral dries on the first Monday of July next, and stal take the oath of office on or before that day.

17. The chief judge and associate judges of the court of appeals shall meet at the capitol, in the city of Albany, on the first Monday of July next. They shall then, or before that time, take the oath of office, and shall thereupon enter upon their official duties.

$ 8. Every person elected chief judge or associate judge of the court of appeals, whether at the first or any subsequent election, and every person hereafter elected justice of the supreme court,

judge of the superior court of the city and county of New York, or of the court of common pleas of said city and county, or of the superior court of the city of Buffalo, or the city court of Brooklyn, or of any county court, shall, within ten days after he enters on the duties of his office, make and sign a certificate in which he shall state his age and the time when his official term will expire, whether by effluxion of a full term or by reason of the disability of age prescribed in the constitution. The certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State; and the Secretary of State shall keep in his office a record in which shall be stated the name of every person elected or appointed to any office in this section specified, and the time of the commencement and termination of his official term.

§ 9. When the official term of any justice or judge of the courts mentioned in the last preceding section, except county judges, will expire at the close of any year, by the effluxion of time or the disability of age, the successor of such justice or judge shall be chosen at the preceding general election. Vacancies otherwise occurring in the said offices shall be filled in the manner prescribed in the ninth section of said sixth article of the constitution. § 10. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 467.

AN ACT in relation to the County Courts.

PASSED April 28, 1870; three-fifths being present.

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

SECTION 1. The county courts, in addition to the powers they now possess, shall have jurisdiction in civil actions where the relief demanded is the recovery of a sum of money not exceeding one thousand dollars, or the recovery of personal property not exceeding in value one thousand dollars, and in which all the defendants are residents of the county in which the action is brought at the time of its commencement, subject to the right of the supreme court, upon special motion, for good cause shown, to

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remove any such action into the supreme court before trial, and also, on such removal being made, to change the venue or place of trial. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction as is now provided by law.

§ 2. Costs in the county courts, in actions authorized to be brought therein by the preceding section, shall be the same, and shall be recovered in the same cases only, as in the like actions in the supreme court.

3. Power of local legislation is hereby conferred on the several boards of supervisors to establish, by local law applicable to their several counties, the salary of the county judge, and of the surrogate when elected as separate officer, such salaries to be payable out of the county treasury; provided that the salary of no county judge or surrogate shall, when once so established, be diminished during his term of office.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for the boards of supervisors of the several counties to authorize the surrogate therein to employ the necessary clerks, and the said boards shall fix the compensation to be paid such clerks.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YORK,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

I have compared the preceding with the original laws on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same are correct transcripts therefrom and of the whole of said original laws. HOMER A. NELSON,

Secretary of State.

INDEX.

THE FIGURES AT THE RIGHT HAND DENOTE THE PAGE, THE OTHERS
DENOTE THE SECTION.

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Action for balance, 54,..

Account,

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In what time to be brought where mutual accounts, 95,

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Parties to (see Plaintiff and Defendant).

Pleadings in (see Pleading, Complaint, Answer and Demurrer).

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On a judgment, when allowed, 71,

Must be prosecuted by party in interest, 111,.

May be maintained by grantee of land in name of grantor, when, 111,
Not abated by death, 121,.

72

98

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315

4

59

59

88

62

90

306

308

307

56, 57

130

67

233

69

301-306

60

Court may order abatement, 121,.

Where to be tried, 123–126,.

Inferior court, etc., review of proceedings, costs on, 318,
Against foreign corporations, 427,..

In place of scire facias, quo warranto, etc., 428,

To determine conflicting claims to real property, etc., 449,.
For discovery, abolished, 389,

Administrator,

Not to be sued in justices' courts, 54,

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84

86-88

230

300

301

307

277

May sue without joining party interested, 113,..
Costs in actions by and against, 317,

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Admission of Debt,

Must be in writing, 110,.
Of written documents, 388,..

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Material allegations in, 168,..

With offer that damages be assessed at specified sum, 386, 387,.

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104

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107

107

108

108

111

118

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