The record shall be made up from the petition, the process, return, the pleadings subsequent thereto, reports, verdicts, orders, judgments, and all material acts and proceedings of the court; but if the items of an account, or the copies of papers attached to the pleadings, be voluminous, the court may order the record to be made by abbreviating the same, or inserting a pertinent description thereof, or by omitting them entirely. Evidence must not be recorded.
R.L. 1910, § 5146. Renumbered from § 704 of this title by Laws 1972, c. 119, § 5, emerg. eff. March 3l, 1972.