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Cal. Corp. Code § 185

General Provisions and Definitions

Known as the General Corporation Law

The act spans §§ 100 to 2319 (398 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Davis v. Yageo Corp. (2007)

Most recently applied in Haah v. Kim (June 2009)

Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 682.

How often courts cite this section

2004200920
citing decisions per year

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.

“Shareholder” means one who is a holder of record of shares.

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