Indemnity in California
Title 12 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code deals with indemnity. Section 2772 explains that indemnity is a contract by which one engages to save another from a legal consequence of the conduct of one of...
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Housing Cooperatives and Trusts
Division 2, Part 2, Title 2, Chapter 5 of the Civil Code deals with housing cooperatives and housing cooperative trusts in California. Section 817 provides a definition for the terms “limited-equity housing cooperative” and “workforce housing cooperative trust.” The articles...
Preservation of Interests
Civil Code Division 2, Part 2, Title 5, Chapter 1, Article 3 deals with preservation of interests in marketable record title for real property in California. Section 880.310 provides that, if the time within which an interest in real property...
California Law and Its ‘Maxims of Jurisprudence’
While California statutes do not provide general canons of statutory construction, readers can find in the California Civil Code “Maxims of Jurisprudence”. These maxims are set forth in Division 4, General Provisions, Part 4, of the Civil Code, contained in...