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TITLE LXXII.

AN ACT TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE GENERAL
STATUTES.

. General Statutes,

feet, and former

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. That the revised acts, reported to this general assemwhen to take ef- bly, by the committee of revision, together with the acts of the presstatutesrepealed, ent session, to be revised by said committee, and incorporated therewith, shall constitute the General Statutes of the state of Connecticut, and shall, on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, be the statute laws of the state; and all other public statute laws, except acts of incorporation, confirming acts, acts which, although public in form, are merely of a private nature, and all acts, which by particular provision are continued in force, shall be thereafter repealed.

Vested rights not

repeal.

SECT. 2. The said repeal shall not impair or affect any rights, to be impaired by privileges, immunities, or offices, vested in any person, or body corporate; and all matters, civil or criminal, commenced by virtue of the statutes repealed as aforesaid, and pending unfinished, may be prosecuted to final effect, in the same manner as if this act had not been passed, unless it shall be otherwise specifically provided by law; and no act, which has been heretofore repealed, shall be revived by the repeal mentioned in this act.

Penal and crimi

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SECT. 3. No offense committed, and no penalty or forfeiture innal liabilities, not curred, under any of the acts hereby repealed, before the time when affected, except, such repeal shall take effect, shall be affected by said repeal, except that when any punishment, penalty, or forfeiture, shall have been mitigated by the provisions of the General Statutes, such provisions shall be extended to any judgment to be pronounced after said repeal.

Words and phrases, how construed.

plural.

SECT. 4. In the construction of these acts, words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning.

In the singular or SECT. 5. Words importing the singular number may extend, and be applied, to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular, and words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females.

SECT. 6. Words purporting to give a joint authority to three or Giving joint aumore public officers, or other persons, shall be construed as giving thority. such authority to a majority of such officers, or persons.

SECT. 7. The word "month" shall mean a calendar month, and Words "month" the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and and “year.” the word "year," alone, shall be equivalent to the expression, year

of our Lord.

SECT. 8. The word "oath" shall include affirmations, in cases word "oath." when, by law, an affirmation may be used for an oath; and in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirm."

SECT. 9. The word "person" may extend to, and be applied, to word companies, corporations, and bodies politic.

person.

SECT. 10. The words "preceding" and " following," when used words "precedby way of reference to any section, shall mean the section next pre-ing" and "follow ceding, or next following, unless some other section is expressly designated in such reference.

ing."

how made.

SECT. 11. One copy of the said General Statutes shall be depos- Record of the ited, and forever kept, in the office of the secretary of this state, to General Statutes which copy said secretary shall annex a certificate, under his hand, and the seal of the state, that the laws therein contained are the Statute Laws of the state of Connecticut, and such certified copy shall be an authentic record of such laws.*

Approved, July 19th, 1865.

The copy certified by Secretary of State imports absolute verity, and courts cannot permit verity of such copy to be collaterally called in question. Eld v. Gorham, 20 C. R. 8.

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when ground for divorce,

ABANDONMENT of child, how punished,

of wife, husband loses control of her property by,
ground for divorce,

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ABATEMENT of nuisances,

of polls,

of taxes,

of governor's guards,

of writs, process, &c., directed to indifferent persons,
served by officer who has not given bond,

not to be had for alteration or amendment of process,
for circumstantial defects,

for death of plaintiff or defendant,

of co-plaintiff or co-defendant,
or removal of officer,

of trustee of shakers,

for marriage of female plaintiff,

plea of, plaintiff may amend after judgment on,

defendant appealing when liable for costs,
issue in fact in, not conclusive,

of suit brought during settlement of insolvent estate,
ABORTION, attempt to procure, how punished, .
accessories in, punishment of,

prompting commission of, by advertisement, &c.

ABSENCE of defendant, when ground for continuance,
new trial may be granted for,

ABSENT DEFENDANT, in suit on contract, how sued,

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ACCUSED, rights of, in criminal prosecutions,
entitled to speedy trial,

not to be compelled to testify against himself,

right of, to challenge jurors,

to be last heard in his defense,

witnesses may be summoned for, at expense of the state,
fees of counsel for, in capital trials, when taxed,

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEEDS, how and before whom made,

of land belonging to the state,

omission of notarial seal not to invalidate,

ACQUITTAL, when no bar to subsequent complaint,

on ground of insanity or dementia, proceedings after,
costs of prosecution, how paid in event of, .

ACTION of account, 58; limitation of,

of disseizin, 63; limitation of new action after death of defendant,

of book debt, 61; limitation of,

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by soldier for bounty, to be tried at the next term,

against railroad for personal injuries to take precedence, when,
against town or city for neglect of horse-railroad track, not to

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at March term in Hartford county, undisposed of, how con-

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