This Code shall not affect any existing right, remedy or defense, nor shall it affect any prosecution now commenced, or which shall be hereafter commenced, for any offense already committed. As to all such cases, the laws in force at the adoption of this Code shall continue in force. But this section does not apply to changes in forms of remedy or defense, to rules of evidence, nor to provisions authorizing amendments of process, proceedings or pleadings in civil cases.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 1 - Construction of Code and Statutes.
Section 1-1-1 - Meaning of Certain Words and Terms.
Section 1-1-2 - Tenses; Gender; Singular and Plural; Joint Authority.
Section 1-1-3 - "Blind Person" Defined; How Blindness Proved.
Section 1-1-4 - Computation of Time.
Section 1-1-5 - Public Offenses Defined.
Section 1-1-6 - Certain Acts or Omissions Not Public Offenses.
Section 1-1-8 - When Penal Acts Take Effect.
Section 1-1-9 - Existing Rights, Remedies and Defenses Preserved.
Section 1-1-11 - Repealed Laws Not Revived.
Section 1-1-13 - Previous Validating Acts Not Repealed.
Section 1-1-15 - References to Sections, Titles, Etc.
Section 1-1-16 - Severability of Provisions of Code and Statutes.