This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2
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 Swearingen v. Byrne (1977)
Most recently applied in Swearingen v. Byrne (February 1977)
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.