The 1960s were a decade of momentous change…

Including a momentous change in New York’s Civil Practice as the Civil Practice Act was completely revised to become the basis of today’s Civil Practice Law & Rules….

1962 Ch. 308…& Did you know that NYLI has all 50 State Session laws available?

The 1962 NY Chap 308 created the CPLR., which went into effective on 9/1/1963…

And if you want to research the reasoning behind the then new (and now 60 years old) NY CPLR… look no further than The New York Law Institute…

While McKinney’s annotations will cite NY Legislative Reports….

Check out the Current McKinney’s NY CPLR…for its always helpful citations

The actual New York State Legislative Reports for the Civil Practice Act are at NYLI. Camera shy, but also in our collection, are the Reports for Revision of Corporate Law & Commission on Estate Law and a year by year summary of Law Revision commissions….

NYS Legislative Annuals.. another starting point… available @ NYLI….

When you need to dig deeper — and get to the legislative intent of the now 60+ year old NY CPLR…. you need The New York Law Institute’s Collection (& the guidance of our expert librarians!)

Print — current and historic, up to date eBooks, Records & Briefs, LLMC, & ProQuest Congressional are all just a friendly call or email away when you’re a NYLI member…

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