California Code
Civil Code - CIV
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

Section 2. - 2. This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on...

Section 3. - 3. No part of it is retroactive, unless expressly so...

Section 4. - 4. The rule of the common law, that statutes in...

Section 5. - 5. The provisions of this Code, so far as they...

Section 6. - 6. No action or proceeding commenced before this Code takes...

Section 7. - 7. Holidays within the meaning of this code are every...

Section 7.1. - 7.1. Optional bank holidays within the meaning of Section 9...

Section 9. - 9. All other days than those mentioned in Section 7...

Section 10. - 10. The time in which any act provided by law...

Section 11. - 11. Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than...

Section 12. - 12. Words giving a joint authority to three or more...

Section 13. - 13. Words and phrases are construed according to the context...

Section 14. - 14. (a) Words used in this code in the present...

Section 17. - 17. Wherever any notice or other communication is required by...

Section 18. - 18. Notice is: 1. Actual—which consists in express information of...

Section 19. - 19. Every person who has actual notice of circumstances sufficient...

Section 20. - 20. No statute, law, or rule is continued in force...

Section 21. - 21. This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended,...