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Excerpt from The Civil Code of the State of California, Vol. 1 of 2 The Governor of the State of California, acting under authority of law, appointed in May, eighteen hundred and seventy, three Commissioners to draft a complete system of laws, and to present the same to the Legislature next to convene. To this task the Commissioners applied themselves, and with painstaking care and great labor completed and presented a report in four volumes, respectively entitled the political, CIVIL, CIVIL procedure, and penal codes. These were critically examined by an Advisory Committee, consisting of two eminent members of the legal profession - Messrs. Sid ney L. Johnson and Charles A. Tuttle - and, after a careful review by the Legislative Committees, were enacted into laws. Each is to a great extent independent of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.