Sections
18 entriesSection 2Sets the code's effective date at twelve o'clock noon on January 1, 1873. Fixes only that starting moment and carries no other…Section 3Bars any part of the code from operating retroactively unless retroactive effect is expressly declared. Sets a default rule of prospective application…Section 4Rejects the common law rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are strictly construed, and requires this code's provisions instead…Section 5Requires the provisions of this code, so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes or the common law, to…Section 6Exempts actions and proceedings begun before the code took effect, and rights that had already accrued, from the code's provisions, leaving those…Section 7Defines holidays for purposes of this code as every Sunday together with any other days specified or provided for as holidays in…Section 7.1Defines optional bank holidays as every Saturday and Sunday, January 1, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lincoln Day, the third Monday in…Section 9Makes every day not listed in Section 7 a business day, but excludes optional bank holidays under Section 7.1 for acts performed…Section 10Sets the method for counting any time period fixed by law: exclude the first day, include the last, and exclude the last…Section 11Allows an act of a secular nature that law or contract sets for a particular day to be performed on the next…Section 12Requires words that give joint authority to three or more public officers or to other persons to be construed as giving that…Section 13Requires words and phrases to be construed according to context and the approved usage of the language, but requires technical words, words…Section 14Defines words used throughout the code: present tense includes future, masculine includes feminine and neuter, singular includes plural, person includes corporations, month…Section 17Allows any notice or communication that this code requires to be sent by registered mail to be sent by certified mail instead,…Section 18Defines, for purposes of this code, the two kinds of notice: actual notice, which consists of express information of a fact, and…Section 19Gives a person constructive notice of a fact when that person has actual notice of circumstances sufficient to put a prudent person…Section 20Repeals or abrogates all prior state statutes, laws, and rules in cases provided for by this code, whether or not they are…Section 21Allows this act, whenever it is cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, to be designated simply as The Civil Code, with the…