American Bar Association Journal
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ISBN13: 9781459026810
Paperback|9781459026810
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. SIMPLIFICATION OF NEW YOKK PBOCEDURE. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE THE PRACTICE ACT PREPARED BY THE BOARD OF STATUTORY CONSOLIDATION. To the New York State Bar Association: This committee, appointed pursuant to a resolution of the association adopted January 30. 1914, begs to make the following report: It is perhaps unnecessary to state that interest in the subject of this report has been to a great extent lessened because the country is so much engrossed by matters more or less directly related to the war. Nevertheless, the Joint Legislative Committee charged with the duty of reporting a statutory plan of procedural reform has made substantial progress. The work of that committee has not, however, advanced to a point where it can be considered as a completed formulation, and comment and criticism must necessarily be confined to certain tentative chapters of a proposed code and to proposed rules of court prepared by it. These, with statements made by the committee as to the manner in which it proposed to carry to completion the rest of the work, afford a basis for a critical judgment of a general character; and your committee is of the opinion that discussion of the work of the Joint Committee even in its incomplete condition will be useful. At the outset, it must be stated that the Joint Committee has, in the matter of both form and arrangement, departed widely from the lines laid down by the Board of Statutory Consolidation. Notably it has rejected the idea of a short Practice Act. It has, however, approved of many of the substantial reforms embodied in the short Practice Act which was prepared by the board which, in a modified form, was approved by this association. The Joint Committee has also approved the plan of the board for transferring to th...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459026810 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459026810 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $30.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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