The Civil Code of the State of California, Volume 1

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A.L. Bancroft, 1874 - Civil law
 

Contents

Real property རོ ཚ ོ ོ
55
Alowance to parent
60
CHAPTER II
66
No person guardian of estate without appointment
68
Water and canal corporations
81
To file articles with County Clerk and Secretary of State and receive certificate Term of existence
82
HOMESTEADS
85
contents
91
Consent 457
92
Directors election of etc
94
How many and who to be Directors
95
Corporation at first meeting to elect Directors and adopt bylaws
96
Dividends to be made from surplus profits
97
Justice of the Peace may order meeting when
98
All stock may be represented in votes
99
False certificate report or notice to make officers liable
100
When no provision in bylaws for regular meetings special meetings how called
101
Transfer of shares
102
Transfer of shares held by married women etc Dividends payable to married women
103
Directors may levy assessments
104
CHAPTER III
111
ARTICLE II
119
ARTICLE IV
122
Payment of subscriptions Capital to be all paid in twelve
130
No stamp required on accident insurance contract
138
CHAPTER II
140
Lay out road how wide
141
May cross or connect roads
142
Regulate force and speed
143
Forfeiture of franchise
144
Railroads through cities not to charge fare to and from points therein
145
State lands granted for use of corporations
146
Selections made how proved and certified to
147
TITLE IV
155
Corporation to obtain license from Supervisors
163
Forfeiture for speculating in or owning lands exceeding two
169
TITLE XI
178
Directors to make verified report annually
182
TITLE XV
190
How organized
191
DIVISION SECOND
197
GENERAL DEFINITIONS
199
TITLE II
204
Limited interest what
206
ARTICLE II
213
RIGHTS OF OWNERS
220
Income what 201
223
Limitations of chattels real
228
TITLE III
242
Purchasers protected
247
Execution of power to dispose by grant
254
Same
259
When directions of author to be observed
260
Instruments deemed conveyances
261
Fraud
262
Power to dispose of fee 923 Power to revoke
263
Release of such power
264
Effect of right of selection
265
Defective execution
266
Executors may bind
267
Particular kinds of personal property
268
Alien minors
274
TITLE III
285
Recording transfers of real property 315
290
219
295
CHAPTER II
298
Transfer of title under sale
309
Same
319
By whom taken without the United States
320
Acknowledgment by married women
321
General form of certificate 221
322
Form of certificate of acknowledgment by married women
323
Form of certificate of acknowledgment by attorney in fact
324
Certificate of authority of Justices in certain cases
325
Evidence must prove what
326
Officers authorized to do certain things
327
Recording and as evidence to be governed by then existing laws
328
CHAPTER V
337
Not void against purchaser having notice unless fraudis mutual
338
Same
339
From what not
344
Exempt from forced sale
345
Same
346
Same
347
Costs
348
CHAPTER II
349
Mode of selection
350
TITLE VI
351
What may pass by will
354
Who may take by will
355
Written will how to be executed
356
Witness to add residence
357
Conditional will
358
Witness who is a devisee and who would be entitled share of testators estate if no will entitled to share to amount of devise
359
Republication by codici
360
Proof of nuncupative wills
361
Written will how revoked
362
220
375
When devises and bequests vest
378
Effect of condition precedent
379
Specific
380
Order of sale in case of an intestate
381
Legacies how charged with debts
383
Abatement
384
Possession of legatees
385
Satisfaction
386
Provisions as to revocations
387
TITLE VII
388
what purpose
389
Personal representatives
390
Illegitimate children to inherit in certain events
394
The mother is successor to illegitimate child
395
Same
396
199
397
What are advancements
398
Distribution of common property on death of the husband
399
Inheritance by representation
400
Succession not claimed Attorney General to cause to be sold and proceeds deposited
401
Property escheated subject to charges as other property
402
200
403
Completion defined
404
Forfeiture
405
Offer of partial performance
439
To whom to be made
440
When offer must be made
441
Offer to be made in good faith
442
Ability and willingness essential
443
Performance of condition precedent
444
Title to thing offered
445
Creditors retention of thing which he refuses to accept
446
PART II
455
Essential elements of contract
456
Essentials of consent
457
Consent when voidable
458
When deemed to have been obtained by fraud etc
459
Menace what
460
Fraud actual or constructive
461
Constructive fraud
464
Actual fraud a question of fact
465
Mistake what
467
Mistake of law
468
Mistake of foreign laws
469
Mode of communicating acceptance of proposal
470
Acceptance by performance of conditions
471
Ratification of contract void for want of consent
472
Object what
473
201
475
TITLE II
480
Public nuisances
483
Corporations to post printed regulations and not responsible for damages in violation of rules 151
484
Technical words
492
Contract restricted to its evident object
493
Particular clause subordinate to general intent
494
Contract partly written and partly printed
495
Inconsistent words rejected
496
Reasonable stipulations when implied
497
Time of performance of contract
498
Same
499
Certain contracts unlawful
500
Penalties void
501
Restraints upon legal proceedings
502
Exception in favor of sale of good will
503
Contract in restraint of marriage void
504
69
508
CHAPTER III
510
When capital invested is repaid tolls to be reduced etc
521
Contract to manufacture
525
70
536
CHAPTER II
537
over the veto
550
Persons holding lucrative offices under the United States Govern ment etc ineligible to office under State Government Proviso
551
Lotteries prohibited
552
OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPOSITARY
555
CHAPTER II
563
ARTICLE IV
571
Obligation of finder
573
Title to property lent
583
TITLE VI
597
Duties of employé for his own benefit
599
SHIPS MANAGERS
610
ARTICLE II
613
Collecting agent
614
Liability of factor under guaranty commission
616
Pilotage
617
Power of master over seamen
618
Impressing private stores
619
When master cannot trade on his own account
620
Seamen not to lose wages or lien by agreement
622
Wages depend on freightage
623
Wages when not lost by wreck
624
Disabled seamen
625
Theft etc forfeits wages
626
Law governing seamen
627
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Rescission of ratification
xiii
ARTICLE III
xiii
ARTICLE V
xiii
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EXONERATION OF GUARANTORS
xiii
What dealings with debtor exonerate guarantor 240
xiii
ARTICLE II
xiii
ARTICLE III
xiii
ARTICLE V
xiii
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xiii
Bottomry lien how lost 306
xiii
CHAPTER VII
xiii
Indorser when liable to payee 332
xiii
Indorsement without recourse 333
xiii
Indorsee privy to contract 333
xiii
Rights of indorsee in due course 335
xiii
Apparent maturity of bill payable at sight 345
xiii
Same 345
xiii
ARTICLE V
xiii
Notice how served after indorsers death 350
xiii
Notice of dishonor when to be mailed 351
xiii
Additional time for notice by indorser 352
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353
xiii
Delay when excused 354
xiii
Waiver of protest ARTICLE VII
xiii
82
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84
xiii
85
xiii
87
xiii
FRAUDULENT INSTRUMENTS AND TRANSFERS
xiii
PART III
xiii
TITLE II
xiii
88
xiii
Legislative department 507
xiii
ARTICLE IV
xiii
Dues of corporations and individual liability therefor 553
xiii
Legislative elections to be viva voce 553
xiii
ARTICLE V
xiii
PUBLICATION OF THE CODES
xiii
8889
649
General provisions applicable to all corporations
698
Future interests when defeated
740
127
796

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