Rule 2124.Effective Date. Pending Actions.

This transitional rule dates the chapter. Its rules became effective on the 1st day of January, 1947, but they do not apply to actions pending at that time. A suit by or against the Commonwealth or a political subdivision that was already underway on that date stayed outside the chapter.

The chapter was adopted June 25, 1946. Several of its rules have been amended since, and each amendment carries its own effective date in the rule’s history; Rule 2102, for example, was amended effective January 1, 1992. The chapter’s treatment of pending cases matches the joinder chapter’s under Rule 2249 and differs from the minors chapter’s under Rule 2049.