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An Act to adopt the Revised Statutes. 1851 32 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0691 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1852. month, and its quarterly sessions on the third Mondays in January, April, July, and October. The terms of its cir- cuit courts shall be held on the fourth Mondays in February and August in each year, by the judge~of the tenth circuit court district, to which district it is hereby attached. Approved January 7, 1852. CHAPTER 358. AN ACT to adopt the Revised Statutes. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- Takekffeet jly wealth of Kentucky, That the following chapters of the re- 1.1852. vised statutes of this commonwealth be adopted, and be- come the law of the land, and take effect on the first of July, 1852. § 2. That all statutes of a general nature, whether of Other general this state, of Virginia, or of England, adopted prior to the atatutes repeal-n rd. first of November, 1851, other than the revised statutes adopted at the last session of the General Assembly, shall Exceptions. stand repealed when the revised statutes take effect, except as follows: 1. All statutes of Virginia 'or this state in relation to vacant lands., former appropriation of the vacant lands of the common- wealth. 2. All statutes of mere local relation to any county, city, Counties, cities, or town, or relating to the powers, privileges, or franchise aaiu~lS,&c. of any corporation, and all statutes in relation to the deaf and dumb asylum at Danville, and'the iastitution for the education of the blind at Louisville. 3. All statutes in relation to the Louisville chancery Certaincourts. court, Jefferson county court, or any city, town, or police court, or the officers thereof; and all statutes prescribing the terms of courts ; also, the act abolishing the general court. 4. The code of practice in civil cases adopted at the last code of Prac- session of the general assembly, so far as the same is con- tice. sistent with the revised statutes. The provisions of such code, inconsistent with the revised statutes, are repealed. 5. The statutes regulating proceedings in civil, criminal, Civil, pepal, and penal cases, not repealed by the code of practice or the and criminal case. revised statutes. § 3. Such repeal shall not affect any offense or act coin- Io retro-active mitted or done, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred: or any effect. right established, accrued or accruing before the revised statutes take effect; or any prosecution, suit or proceeding that may be pending, except that the proceedings hereafter shall conform, as far as practicable, to the revised statutes, and except that where any penalty, forfeiture, or punish- ment is mitigated by those statutes, they may bo applied, with the consent of the party to be affected, to any judg- ment thereafter 4pronounced.

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