...momentous, certainly, is the provision for the appointment, by the legislature, of three commissioners, " to reduce into a written and systematic code, the whole body of the law of this state," and to " specify such alterations and amendments therein, as they shall deem proper." The commissioners...

...after the adoption of this constitution, shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this state, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable and expedient....

...constitution in 1846. The new constitution authorized the legislature to appoint three commissioners to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of the state, or so much thereof as the commissioners should deem expedient. Another section provided...

...work. Their duty, it will be remembered, as expressed in the act by which they were appointed, was " to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State, or so much and such parts thereof as shall seem to them practicable and expedient, excepting always...

...session after the adoption of this constitution, shall appoint three commissioners whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of tliis state, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable...

...the substantive law of the state. But it was enacted that two Commissions should be appointed: one to reduce into a written and systematic Code the whole body of the law of the state, and the other to revise the existing rules of practice and pleading. By these two Commissions—respectively...

...Commission would also suggest the passage of a law providing for the codification, or the reduction "into a written and systematic code, the whole body of the law of this State," as has been already done in the State of New York, by the creation of a civil, a political and a criminal...

...recently appointed by the state of New York, ' to reduce,' in the words of the Act of Appointment. ' into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this state.' Those who are opposed to all idea of a code, or regard the .idea of its composition as chimerical,...

...after the adoption of this Constitution, shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable and expedient....

...adoption of this Constitution, shall appoiut three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to reduco into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable aud expedient....