The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-03
TIE REyISAL OF 1906.

the State. will pass its second reading
today in the Senate and by tomorrow
night will be ratified. 1t does not take
effect however until August 1st. next
Nothing in it repeats any private act
except such as is directly in conflict
with it, or any act relating to fishing
in any PARTICULAR section of the State.
State or OF any county. or cedinG the
lands of this State to the general gov
ernment or prohibiting or regulating
the sale OF liquors in any particular
section. or regulating the working OF
public roads in any particular sec
tiop, or concerning any of the Chero-
kcc lands. All public and general
statutes passed at this session of the
General Assembly shall be deemed 20
repeal any conflicting provisions of the
Reyisal. and the Code Commission is
empowered TO make such changes in
the Rcvisal as these laws compel
just as soon as the legislature adj
journs the publication of the perI1a-
nent edition will at once be under.
taken by the commissioners. who. as
soon as they have completed the prep
aration of the manuscript. will submit
the same to a. legislative committee.
Upon II being approved by the leg
islative committee. tho commissions.
ers will at once publish the work.
the first edition to contain 5000
copies Of the first volume and $500
copies Of the second volume, the sec
ond volume not TO be distributed to
magistrates. 1t is the purpose OF the
commission 70 make q special feature
of the index. 1t is the unanimous wish
of the legal profession that fine
index be prepared. as the usefulness
Of the work depends upon it.
The legislative committee passed on
a number of new sections inserted by
the commission, and practically ex
amined every section of the two vol
umcs, adding a great amount of new
law looking to the farmonizlng of the
whole; but no new law of 81 general
nature which received any serious OBJ
position was Incorporated. rs the COM
mittee did not think Il proper TO as
sume SO much authority.
The following arc the moro import
ant changes in the law as made by the
Code Commission and the Legislative
COMMITTEES:
/. Where either husband or wife
has feloniously slain the otner, the
guilty one shall be debarred from all
rights in the personal estate OF the
other, and the right 10 administer or
the estate. This applies TO those guilty
of manSlaughter, whereas hereto
fore it applied only to eases OF muir
der.
:. An administrator can sue for the
recovery of personal property fraudu-
lently conveyed by the decedent in his
lifetime.
g. Where ar attorney at law coll
lects money for q client and the client
gets u Judgment against him for his
failure to account, the Judgment shall
he carried forward Oh the docket, and
If 1t is not paid by the next term of
court, the judge may disbar him from
practicing.
L. The power of sale in mortgage
cannot be executed after ten years
from its maturity.
5. County officials hereafter give
their official bonds for their term of
office and not annually as heretofore
6. Letters of administration must
be taken out within ten years from
the death of the. intestate.
= A county commissioner. approx
ing a bond. is liable as surety. if by
reasonable diligence he could have
found that the surety vas insolvent.
S. In actions against insurance COM
local agent as well as on the Insu:-
ance Commissioner.
3. In actions in magistrates courts
against foreign corporations summons
can be addressed to the sheriff of the
county where a process agent OF said
corporation is located. returnablc in
not less than twenty and not over
forty days.
10. Profafe swearing in n justices
court is punishable by a fine of SIS
or imprisonment.
II. 1t is now only necessary. in
order to remove u case from justice.
to file affidavit that atiiant "has good
reason to believe he is unable to OBJ
tain a fair trial"
u. Mileage books are redcemable
at the price paid for tilem il as much
as so per cent of same has been used
49, No sheriff shall administer an
DATA.
IL. General bird and turkey law,
close season begins March 1st and
ends NOV. LIST. u number OF counties
being excepted.
Is. The following only ere exempt
ed from jury duty: PracticinG physi-
clan. licensed druggist, telegraph OPP
orator in regular employment; traiA
dispatcher employed in handling
trains. regularly licensed pilot regular
minister OF the gospel, officer or cnl-
ployec of State hospital for the in