EFFECT OF THE 1872 CODES
Known as the The Civil Code
The act spans §§ 1–23 (29 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 14 Cal. 4th 814 - Kentucky Fried Chicken of California, Inc. v. Superior Court (1997)
Most recently applied in 14 Cal. 4th 814 - Kentucky Fried Chicken of California, Inc. v. Superior Court (January 1997)
Enacted 1872.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This Act shall be known as The Civil Code of the State of California, and is in Four Divisions, as follows:
I.—THE FIRST RELATING TO PERSONS.
II.—THE SECOND TO PROPERTY.
III.—THE THIRD TO OBLIGATIONS.
IV.—THE FOURTH CONTAINS GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE THREE PRECEDING DIVISIONS.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.