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 the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.
Cal. Civ. Code § 10
EFFECT OF THE 1872 CODES
Known as the The Civil Code
The act spans §§ 1–23 (29 sections).
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case 28 Cal. 2d 198 - Alford v. Industrial Accident Commission (1946)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. App. 4th 710 - Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation v. State Personnel Board (July 2015)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.