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Cal. Civ. Code § 3534

MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Applied in 62 court decisions — leading case 11 Cal. 3d 801 - Clean Air Constituency v. California State Air Resources Board (1974)

Most recently applied in Trolan v. Trolan (January 2019)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

Particular expressions qualify those which are general.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.