Eminent Domain—Judgment fob Damages—Refusal by Defendant of Amount Awarded—Unsuccessful Appeal—Interest on Judgment not Allowed.—Where after a judgment condemning property for a public use and payment by the condemnor into court of the full compensation awarded, the land owner refuses to accept the award and prosecutes, unsuccessfully, au appeal therefrom, the deposit is equivalent to a tender of payment, which stops the running of interest, pending the unsuccessful appeal.

Id.—Statutes—Interest on Award in Condemnation Proceedings. The contention that sections 1249 and 1254 of the Code of Civil Procedure provide a special rule under which a defendant in condemnation proceedings may refuse to accept the tender of an award made by deposit in court for his benefit, appeal from the judgment, and, upon affirmance thereof, insist upon the payment of interest on the amount pending such appeal, is without merit.

Statutory Construction—-Statute Adopting Existing Law Generally Without Reference to Particular Statute.—Where a statute, by adoption refers, not to a particular statute or provision thereof, but to the law generally, governing a particular subject, the reference is to be construed as applying, not only to the law as it existed at the time of enacting the adopting statute, but to the law as changed from time to time, and as it exists when invoked in an action or proceeding.

Id.—Construction—Statute Adopting Specific Existing Statutory Provision.—When a statute, by adoption, designates and adopts an entire provision contained in a section of a statute by reference to its descriptive number, the construction is the same as though the provision adopted had been bodily incorporated in the adopting statute.

Eminent Domain — Statutory Construction — Section 1249 of the Code of Civil Procedure Construed.—It being the rule of statutory construction that when a statute, by reference, adopts an entire provision of a section of a code by reference to its descriptive number, the effect is the same as though the provision had been bodily incorporated, in the adopting statute, the reference in section 1249 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as originally enacted, to section 1254, must be construed as referring to the provision contained in section 1254 as it existed at the time when section 1249 was passed.

Statutes—Amended Statute—Construction.—Under section 325 of the Political Code, portions of an pmended statute which are copied without change, are not to be considered hs repealed and again re-enacted, but to have been the law all along.