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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1822.59

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1822.59

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1822.54, for purposes of an animal or plant pest or disease eradication effort pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 5001) or Division 5 (commencing with Section 9101) of the Food and Agricultural Code, the judge may issue a

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1822.60

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1822.60

A warrant may be issued under the requirements of this title to authorize personnel of the Department of Justice to conduct inspections as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 19827 of the Business and Professions Code.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 184

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 184

No proceeding in any court of justice, in an action or special proceeding pending therein, shall be affected by a vacancy in the office of all or any of the judges or justices thereof.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 185

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 185

(a) Every written proceeding in a court of justice in this state shall be in the English language, and judicial proceedings shall be conducted, preserved, and published in no other. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a court from providing an unofficial translation of a court

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1855

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1855

When any map which has been recorded in the office of the recorder of any county is injured, destroyed, lost, or stolen, any person interested may file in the superior court of the county in which the map was originally filed or recorded a verified petition in writing alleging th

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1856

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1856

(a) Terms set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to the terms included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of a prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement. (b) The terms set forth in a writing descr

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1857

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1857

The language of a writing is to be interpreted according to the meaning it bears in the place of its execution, unless the parties have reference to a different place.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1858

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1858

In the construction of a statute or instrument, the office of the Judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted, or to omit what has been inserted; and where there are several provisions or particu

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1859

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1859

In the construction of a statute the intention of the Legislature, and in the construction of the instrument the intention of the parties, is to be pursued, if possible; and when a general and particular provision are inconsistent, the latter is paramount to the former. So a part

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 186

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 186

Such abbreviations as are in common use may be used, and numbers may be expressed by figures or numerals in the customary manner.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1860

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1860

For the proper construction of an instrument, the circumstances under which it was made, including the situation of the subject of the instrument, and of the parties to it, may also be shown, so that the Judge be placed in the position of those whose language he is to interpret.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1861

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1861

The terms of a writing are presumed to have been used in their primary and general acceptation, but evidence is nevertheless admissible that they have a local, technical, or otherwise peculiar signification, and were so used and understood in the particular instance, in which cas

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1862

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1862

When an instrument consists partly of written words and partly of a printed form, and the two are inconsistent, the former controls the latter.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1864

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1864

When the terms of an agreement have been intended in a different sense by the different parties to it, that sense is to prevail against either party in which he supposed the other understood it, and when different constructions of a provision are otherwise equally proper, that is

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1865

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1865

A written notice, as well as every other writing, is to be construed according to the ordinary acceptation of its terms. Thus a notice to the drawers or indorsers of a bill of exchange or promissory note, that it has been protested for want of acceptance or payment, must be held

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1866

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1866

When a statute or instrument is equally susceptible of two interpretations, one in favor of natural right, and the other against it, the former is to be adopted.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 187

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 187

When jurisdiction is, by the Constitution or this Code, or by any other statute, conferred on a Court or judicial officer, all the means necessary to carry it into effect are also given; and in the exercise of this jurisdiction, if the course of proceeding be not specifically poi

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1878

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1878

A witness is a person whose declaration under oath is received as evidence for any purpose, whether such declaration be made on oral examination, or by deposition or affidavit.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1895

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1895

Laws, whether organic or ordinary, are either written or unwritten.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1896

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1896

A written law is that which is promulgated in writing, and of which a record is in existence.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1897

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1897

The organic law is the Constitution of Government, and is altogether written. Other written laws are denominated statutes. The written law of this State is therefore contained in its Constitution and statutes, and in the Constitution and statutes of the United States.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1898

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1898

Statutes are public or private. A private statute is one which concerns only certain designated individuals, and affects only their private rights. All other statutes are public, in which are included statutes creating or affecting corporations.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1899

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 1899

Unwritten law is the law not promulgated and recorded, as mentioned in Section 1896, but which is, nevertheless, observed and administered in the Courts of the country. It has no certain repository, but is collected from the reports of the decisions of the Courts, and the treatis

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 19

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 19

This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, may be designated simply as “T he C ode of C ivil P rocedure ,” adding, when necessary, the number of the section.

Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 190

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Code of Civil Procedure - CCP - CCP § 190

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Trial Jury Selection and Management Act.