California Laws: Civil Code Sections 2-21
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 2
This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. ...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 3
No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so declared. ...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 4
The rule of the common law, that statutes in derogation thereof are to be strictly construed, has no application to this Code. The Code establishes...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 5
The provisions of this Code, so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes or the common law, must be construed as continuations...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 6
No action or proceeding commenced before this Code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by its provisions. ...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 7
Holidays within the meaning of this code are every Sunday and such other days as are specified or provided for as holidays in the Government...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 7.1
Optional bank holidays within the meaning of Section 9 are: (a) Any closing of a bank because of an extraordinary situation, as that term is...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 9
All other days than those mentioned in Section 7 are business days for all purposes; provided, that as to any act appointed by law or...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 10
The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 11
Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 12
Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons are construed as giving such authority to a majority of them,...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 13
Words and phrases are construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 14
Words used in this code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 17
Wherever any notice or other communication is required by this code to be mailed by registered mail, the mailing of such notice or other communication...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 18
Notice is: 1. Actual--which consists in express information of a fact; or, 2. Constructive--which is imputed by law. (19.) Section Nineteen. Every person who has...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 20
No statute, law, or rule is continued in force because it is consistent with the provisions of this Code on the same subject; but in...
- California Laws: Civil Code Section 21
This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, may be designated simply as "THE CIVIL CODE," adding, when necessary, the number of the section....
