Excerpt from General Laws of New York Containing All Amendments to the Close of the Session of 1900, Vol. 1 of 4: With Topical and Alphabetical Index and Appendix of All General (Uncodified) Acts Now in Force, by Titles The index has been treated with especial care. There are two methods, and only two, of compiling statutes, the subject method, and the topical method. The subject method, i. E. The division of the whole field into subjects, each to be treated in a separate chapter, is the one employed in the revision of 1828 and the new revision. The other, the topical method, is the one commonly employed in digesting law reports. The subject method is the most logical and satisfactory, but seems to require the stamp of authority, such as the legislature alone can give. The topical method is the one most readily used in digesting a great mass of disconnected reports or statutes. The great dificulty in using this method is to guess out the topical heads under which the compiler has placed his excerpts. Now that the legislature has once more revised our statute law and shown its in tention to hold to the plan of this newest revision, the bar can return to the more satisfactory subject method in its use and study of the statutes. And to assist in such use and study, the index of this work has been most fully prepared and all needed cross references have been carefully inserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.