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The New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) is chapter 8 of the ''
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The New York Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) is chapter 8 of the ''Consolidated Laws of New York
The ''Consolidated Laws of the State of New York'' are the codification of the permanent laws of a general nature of New York enacted by the New York State Legislature.
It is composed of several chapters, or laws. New York uses a system calle ...
'' and governs legal procedure in the Unified Court System such as jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' and 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, the concept of jurisdiction applies at multiple level ...
, venue, and pleadings, as well certain areas of substantive law
Substantive law is the set of laws that governs how members of a society are to behave.Substantive Law vs. Procedural Law: Definitions and Differences, Study.com/ref> It is contrasted with procedural law, which is the set of procedures for making, ...
such as the statute of limitations
A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In ...
and joint and several liability
Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be:
* severally liable, or
* jointly liable, or
* jointly and severally liable.
Several liability
In several or proportionat ...
.
The CPLR has approximately 700 individual sections and rules which are divided into 70 articles. A committee of the New York State Bar Association, the Committee on Civil Practice Law and Rules, monitors the law and periodically proposes amendments.
History
The 1846 New York State Constitution directed the appointment of a commission to simplify and modernize the arcane system of writs and pleadings, and the Field Code (after commissioner David Dudley Field II) was enacted by the Legislature on April 12, 1848. The CPLR was enacted in 1962.Article 100, Civil Practice Law & RulesSee also
* Law of New YorkReferences
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