California CodesCode of Civil Procedure - CCPPreliminary ProvisionsSection 2
This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Notes
Sets twelve o’clock noon on January 1, 1873, as the time when the Code takes effect, making that specific date and time the effective point for the Code. The operative rule is that the Code takes effect at that stated noon hour on that date.
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