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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1228
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1228
No instrument is to be avoided under the last section, in favor of a subsequent purchaser or incumbrancer having notice thereof at the time his purchase was made, or his lien acquired, unless the person in whose favor the instrument was made was privy to the fraud intended.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1229
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1229
Where a power to revoke or modify an instrument affecting the title to, or the enjoyment of, an estate in real property, is reserved to the grantor, or given to any other person, a subsequent grant of, or charge upon, the estate, by the person having the power or revocation, in f
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1230
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1230
Where a person having a power of revocation, within the provisions of the last section, is not entitled to execute it until after the time at which he makes such a grant or charge as is described in that section, the power is deemed to be executed as soon as he is entitled to exe
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1231
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1231
Other provisions concerning unlawful transfers are contained in Part II, Division Fourth, of this Code, concerning the Special Relations of Debtor and Creditor.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 13
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 13
Words and phrases are construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, or are defined in the succeeding section, are to be construed accordin
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 14
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 14
(a) Words used in this code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word person includes a corporation as well as
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1414
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1414
As between appropriators, the one first in time is the first in right.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1415
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1415
A person desiring to appropriate water must post a notice, in writing, in a conspicuous place at the point of intended diversion, stating therein: 1. That he claims the water there flowing to the extent of (giving the number) inches, measured under a four-inch pressure; 2. The pu
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1416
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1416
Within sixty days after the notice is posted, the claimant must commence the excavation or construction of the works in which he intends to divert the water, or the survey, road or trail building, necessarily incident thereto, and must prosecute the work diligently and uninterrup
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1417
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1417
By “completion” is meant conducting the waters to the place of intended use.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1418
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1418
By a compliance with the above rules the claimant’s right to the use of the water relates back to the time the notice was posted.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1419
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1419
A failure to comply with such rules deprives the claimants of the right to the use of the water as against a subsequent claimant who complies therewith.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1420
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1420
Persons who have heretofore claimed the right to water, and who have not constructed works in which to divert it, and who have not diverted nor applied it to some useful purpose, must, after this Title takes effect, and within twenty days thereafter, proceed as in this Title prov
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1421
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1421
The Recorder of each county must keep a book, in which he must record the notices provided for in this Title.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1422
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1422
If the place of intended diversion or any part of the route of intended conveyance of water so claimed, be within, and a part of, any national park, forest reservation, or other public reservation, and be so shown in the notice of appropriation of said water, then the claimant sh
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1427
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1427
An obligation is a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1429
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1429
The rules which govern the interpretation of contracts are prescribed by Part II of this Division. Other obligations are interpreted by the same rules by which statutes of a similar nature are interpreted.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1430
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1430
An obligation imposed upon several persons, or a right created in favor of several persons, may be: 1. Joint; 2. Several; or, 3. Joint and several.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431
Joint Liability An obligation imposed upon several persons, or a right created in favor of several persons, is presumed to be joint, and not several, except as provided in Section 1431.2, and except in the special cases mentioned in the title on the interpretation of contracts. T
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.1
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.1
Findings and Declaration of Purpose The People of the State of California find and declare as follows: a) The legal doctrine of joint and several liability, also known as “the deep pocket rule”, has resulted in a system of inequity and injustice that has threatened financial bank
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.2
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.2
Several Liability for Non-economic Damages (a) In any action for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death, based upon principles of comparative fault, the liability of each defendant for non-economic damages shall be several only and shall not be joint. Each defendant
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.3
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.3
Nothing contained in this measure is intended, in any way, to alter the law of immunity.
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.4
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.4
Amendment or Repeal of Measure. This measure may be amended or repealed by either of the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection (a) is declared invalid, then subsection (b) shall be the exclusive means of amending or repealing this measure. (a) This me
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.5
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1431.5
Severability. If any provision of this measure, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this measure to the extent it can be given effect, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances oth
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Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1432
Civil Code - CIV - CIV § 1432
Except as provided in Section 877 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a party to a joint, or joint and several obligation, who satisfies more than his share of the claim against all, may require a proportionate contribution from all the parties joined with him.