Words used in this Part 2 in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past or present; words use in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; the word "person" includes a corporation, joint-stock company or voluntary association as well as a natural person; "writing" includes printing, printed or typewritten matter; "oath" includes affirmation or declaration; "signature" or "subscription" includes "mark," when the person cannot write, his name being written near it. The following terms also named in this Part 2 have the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context:
ATTORNEY
An attorney of the Supreme Court of this state, duly licensed to practice as such.
CORPORATION
Includes every association having any corporate rights, whether created by special acts of the legislature or under general laws.
The repeal of a law or any part of it specified in the annexed schedule shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, forfeiture or penalty incurred prior to September 1, 1931, under or by virtue of any law so repealed, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same extent as if such law had not been repealed; nor shall this Part 2 create a vacancy in any office or employment. All actions and proceedings commenced under or by virtue of the laws so repealed and pending on September 1, 1931, may be prosecuted in the same manner and with the same effect as they might under laws then existing, unless it shall be otherwise specially provided. Nothing in this Part 2 contained shall be construed as affecting any existing provision of law so far as provisions apply to any portion of this state, other than the City of Albany.
The provisions of this Part 2, so far as they are substantially the same as those of laws existing prior to September 1, 1910, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended, according to the language employed in this Part 2, and not as a new enactment; a reference in laws not repealed to provisions of law incorporated into this Part 2 and repealed shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated.
The laws or parts thereof, specified in the schedule hereto annexed, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto in force when this Part 2 takes effect are hereby repealed.