No action or proceedings commenced before this Code, or any individual Title thereof, takes effect, and no right accrued is affected by its provisions, but proceedings therein must conform to the requirements of this Code, or any particular Title thereof, as far as possible.

SOURCE: Former Code of Civil Procedure § 8. Also, § 2 of P.L. 13-186 enacting the Criminal and Correctional Code; and Government Code § 4, Probate Code § 3.