THE

CIVIL CODE

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

AN ACT

TO ESTABLISH A CIVIL CODE.

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

GENERAL DEFINITIONS AND DIVISIONS.

SECTION 1. Title of Code.

2. Definition of law.

3. Action of sovereign power.

4. Two kinds of laws.

5, 6. Customary law.

7. Two kinds of civil rights.

8. Rights, how modified.

9. Divisions of the Civil Code.

Code.

SECTION 1. This act shall be known as the CIVIL CODE Title of OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

of law.

§ 2. Law is a rule of property and conduct prescribed Definition by the sovereign power of the state.

§ 8. The sovereign power for this purpose acts:

1. By constitution or organic acts of the people;

2. By acts of the legislature, or of other and subordinate legislative bodies;

Action of sovereign power.

Two kinds of law.

Customary law.

Id.

Two kinds of civil rights.

Rights, how modified.

Divisions of the Civil Code.

3. By enforcing through the tribunals those rules which, though not enacted, form what is known as customary law.

§ 4. Customary law is divided into:

1. Public law or the law of nations;
2. Domestic or municipal law.

§ 5. The evidence of the customary law is found in the decisions of the tribunals.

§ 6. In this state there is no customary law, in any case, so far as the same is provided for by the five Codes.

§ 7. All original civil rights are either:

1. Rights of person, or,

2. Rights of property.

§ 8. Rights of property and of person may be waived,' surrendered or lost by neglect, in the cases provided by law. Conkling v. King, 10 N. Y., 440.

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§ 9. This Code is divided into four general divisions:

1. The first relates to Persons;

2. The second to Property;

3. The third to Obligations;

4. The fourth contains General Provisions relating to Persons, Property and Obligations.