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Lexis Nexis Parker's California Civil Code
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Table of Contents
TITLE OF THE ACT
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS AND SOURCES OF LAW
EFFECT OF THE 1872 CODES
DIVISION 1 PERSONS
Part 1 Persons With Unsound Mind
Part 1.5 Uniform Minor Student Capacity To Borrow Act [Repealed]
Part 2 Personal Rights
Part 2.5 Blind and Other Physically Disabled Persons
Part 2.52 Construction-related Accessibility Standards Compliance
Part 2.53 Attorney's Fees and Statutory Damages in Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Claims
Part 2.6 Confidentiality of Medical Information
Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Disclosure of Medical Information by Providers
Chapter 2.5 Disclosure of Genetic Test Results by Health Care Service Plan
Chapter 3 Use and Disclosure of Medical Information by Employers
Chapter 4 Relationship of Chapters 2 and 3
Chapter 5 Use and Disclosure of Medical and other Information by Third Party Administrators and Others
Chapter 6 Relationship to Existing Law
Chapter 7 Violations
Part 2.7 Medical Claims Data Error Correction
Part 2.9 California Fair Dealership Law
Part 3 Personal Relations [Repealed]
Part 4 Corporations [Repealed]
DIVISION 2 PROPERTY
Part 1 Property in General
Title 1 Nature of Property
Title 2 Ownership
Chapter 1 Owners
Chapter 2 Modifications of Ownership
Chapter 2.5 Principal and Income Law [Repealed]
Chapter 2.6 Legal Estates Principal and Income Law
Chapter 3 Rights of Owners
Chapter 4 Termination of Ownership
Title 3 General Definitions
Part 2 Real or Immovable Property
Title 1 General Provisions
Title 2 Estates in Real Property
Chapter 1 Estates in General
Chapter 2 Termination of Estates
Chapter 2.5 Mobilehome Residency Law
Chapter 2.6 Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law
Chapter 2.7 Floating Home Residency Law
Chapter 3 Servitudes
Chapter 4 Conservation Easements
Chapter 4.5 Greenway Easements
Chapter 5 Housing Cooperatives and Housing Cooperative Trusts
Title 3 Rights and Obligations of Owners
Chapter 1 Rights of Owners.
Chapter 2 Obligations of Owners
Chapter 3 Environmental Responsibility Acceptance Act
Title 4 Uses and Trusts [Repealed]
Title 5 Marketable Record Title
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Ancient Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
Chapter 3 Mineral Rights
Chapter 4 Unexercised Options
Chapter 5 Powers of Termination
Chapter 6 Unperformed Contracts for Sale of Real Property
Chapter 7 Abandoned Easements
Title 6 Rent Skimming
Title 7 Requirements for Actions for Construction Defects
Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Actionable Defects
Chapter 3 Obligations
Chapter 4 Prelitigation Procedure
Chapter 5 Procedure
Title 8 Reconstruction of Homes Lost in Cedar Fire, October 2003 [Repealed]
Part 3 Personal or Movable Property
Title 1 Personal Property in General
Title 2 Particular Kinds of Personal Property
Chapter 1 Things in Action
Chapter 2 Shipping
Chapter 3 Products of the Mind
Chapter 4 Other Kinds of Personal Property
Part 4 Acquisition of Property
Title 1 Modes in Which Property May Be Acquired
Title 2 Occupancy
Title 3 Accession
Chapter 1 Accession to Real Property
Chapter 2 Accession to Personal Property
Title 4 Transfer
Chapter 1 Transfers in General
Chapter 2 Transfer of Real Property
Chapter 3 Transfer of Personal Property
Chapter 4 Recording Transfers
Chapter 5 Unlawful Transfers
Title 5 Homesteads [Repealed]
Title 6 Common Interest Developments [Repealed]
Chapter 1 General Provisions [Repealed]
Chapter 2 Governing Documents [Repealed]
Chapter 3 Ownership Rights and Interests [Repealed]
Chapter 4 Governance [Repealed]
Chapter 5 Operations [Repealed]
Chapter 6 Transfer of Ownership Interests [Repealed]
Chapter 7 Civil Actions and Liens [Repealed]
Chapter 8 Construction of Instruments and Zoning [Repealed]
Chapter 9 Construction Defect Litigation [Repealed]
Chapter 10 Improvements [Repealed]
Title 7 Powers of Appointment [Repealed]
Title 8 Water Rights
Title 9 Hydraulic Mining [Repealed]
Title 10 Mining Claims, Tunnel Rights and Mill Sites [Repealed]
DIVISION 3 OBLIGATIONS
Part 1 Obligations in General
Title 1 Definition of Obligations
Title 2 Interpretation of Obligations
Chapter 1 General Rules of Interpretation
Chapter 2 Joint or Several Obligations
Chapter 3 Conditional Obligations
Chapter 4 Alternative Obligations
Title 3 Transfer of Obligations
Title 4 Extinction of Obligations
Chapter 1 Performance
Chapter 2 Offer of Performance
Chapter 3 Prevention of Performance or Offer
Chapter 4 Accord and Satisfaction
Chapter 5 Novation
Chapter 6 Release
Part 2 Contracts
Title 1 Nature of a Contract
Chapter 1 Definition
Chapter 2 Parties
Chapter 3 Consent
Chapter 4 Object of a Contract
Chapter 5 Consideration
Title 2 Manner of Creating Contracts
Title 2.5 Electronic Transactions
Title 3 Interpretation of Contracts
Title 4 Unlawful Contracts
Title 4.5 Liquidated Damages
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Default on Real Property Purchase Contract
Title 5 Extinction of Contracts
Chapter 1 Contracts, How Extinguished
Chapter 2 Rescission
Chapter 2.1 Dating Service Contracts
Chapter 2.2 Weight Loss Contracts
Chapter 2.5 Home Equity Sales Contracts
Chapter 3 Modification and Cancellation
Part 3 Obligations Imposed by Law
Part 4 Obligations Arising from Particular Transactions
Title 1 Consignment of Fine Art
Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 General Provisions
Title 1A Independent Wholesale Sales Representatives
Title 1.1 Sale and Manufacture of Political Items
Title 1.1A Autographed Sports Memorabilia
Title 1.2 Sale of Fine Prints
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Full Disclosure in the Sale of Fine Prints
Chapter 3 Remedies and Penalties
Title 1.2A Violent Video Games
Title 1.3 Credit Cards
Title 1.3A Credit Card Disclosure
Title 1.3B Charge Card Disclosures
Title 1.3C Debit Cards
Title 1.4 Layaway Practices
Title 1.4A Gift Certificates
Title 1.4B Supermarket Club Cards
Title 1.5 Consumers Legal Remedies Act
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Construction and Definitions
Chapter 3 Deceptive Practices
Chapter 4 Remedies and Procedures
Title 1.6 Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Obligations of Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies
Chapter 3 Requirements on Users of Consumer Credit Reports
Chapter 3.5 Obligations of Furnishers of Credit Information
Chapter 3.6 (Repealed January 1, 2017) Escrow Agent Rating Service
Chapter 4 Remedies
Title 1.61 Commercial Credit Reports
Title 1.6A Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies
Title 1.6B Consumer Credit Denial
Title 1.6C Fair Debt Collection Practices
Title 1.6C.5 Fair Debt Buying Practices
Title 1.6D Electronic Commerce
Title 1.6E Credit Services
Title 1.6F Check Cashers
Title 1.7 Consumer Warranties
Chapter 1 Consumer Warranty Protection
Chapter 1.5 Motor Vehicle Warranty Adjustment Programs
Chapter 2 Standards for Warranty Work
Chapter 3 Mobilehome Warranties
Chapter 4 Grey Market Goods
Chapter 5 Home Roof Warranties
Title 1.8 Personal Data
Chapter 1 Information Practices Act of 1977
Title 1.80 Identification Documents
Title 1.807 Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking: Personal Information
Title 1.81 Customer Records
Title 1.81.1 Confidentiality of Social Security Numbers
Title 1.81.15 Reader Privacy Act
Title 1.81.2 Confidentiality of Driver's License Information
Title 1.81.23 Collection of License Plate Information
Title 1.81.25 Consumer Privacy Protection
Title 1.81.27 Commercial Use of Booking Photographs
Title 1.81.3 Identity Theft
Title 1.81.4 Privacy of Customer Electrical or Natural Gas Usage Data
Title 1.82 Business Records
Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Disclosures
Chapter 3 Civil Remedies
Title 1.83 Precomputed Interest
Title 1.84 Precomputed Finance Charge Contract
Title 1.85 Consumer Credit Contracts
Title 1.86 Consumer Contract Awareness Act of 1990
Title 2 Credit Sales
Chapter 1 Retail Installment Sales
Chapter 2 Credit Transactions Regarding Women
Chapter 3 Retail Credit Advisory Committee [Repealed]
Title 2.4 Contracts For Dance Studio Lessons And Other Services
Title 2.5 Contracts For Health Studio Services
Title 2.55 Contracts for the Lease or Rental of Athletic Facilities
Title 2.6 Contracts for Discount Buying Services
Title 2.7 Contracts for Seller Assisted Marketing Plans
Title 2.8 Membership Camping Contracts
Title 2.9 Creditor Remedies: Disability Insurance
Title 2.91 Employment Agency, Employment Counseling, and Job Listing Services Act
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Employment Agencies
Chapter 3 Employment Counseling Services
Chapter 4 Job Listing Services
Chapter 5 Records
Chapter 6 Remedies and Enforcement
Chapter 7 Nurses' Registries
Chapter 8 Long–Term Care Facilities
Title 2.95 Auctioneer and Auction Companies
Title 2.96 California Rental–Purchase Act
Title 2.97 Consumer Collection Notice
Title 3 Deposit
Chapter 1 Deposit in General
Chapter 2 Deposit for Keeping
Chapter 3 Deposit for Exchange
Chapter 4 Private Bulk Storage of Grain
Title 3.5 Utility Services
Title 4 Loan
Chapter 1 Loan for Use
Chapter 1.5 Loans to Museums for Indefinite or Long Terms
Chapter 2 Loan for Exchange
Chapter 3 Loan of Money
Usury Law
Chapter 3.5 Shared Appreciation Loans
Chapter 4 Shared Appreciation Loans of E.R.I.S.A. Pension Funds
Chapter 5 Shared Appreciation Loans
Chapter 6 Loans of E.R.I.S.A. Pension Funds
Chapter 7 Shared Appreciation Loans For Seniors
Chapter 7.5 Mortgage Loans
Chapter 8 Reverse Mortgages
Title 4.5 Appraisals of Real Property [Repealed]
Title 5 Hiring
Chapter 1 Hiring in General
Chapter 2 Hiring of Real Property
Chapter 2.6 Commercial Rental Control
Chapter 2.7 Residential Rent Control
Chapter 3 Hiring of Personal Property
Chapter 4 Identification of Property Owners
Chapter 4.5 Disposition of Personal Property Upon Request of Tenant
Chapter 5 Disposition of Personal Property Remaining on Premises at Termination of Tenancy
Chapter 5.5 Disposition of Property Remaining on Premises at Termination of Commercial Tenancy
Chapter 6 Assignment and Sublease
Chapter 7 Use Restrictions
Title 6 Service
Chapter 1 Service with Employment [Repealed]
Chapter 2 Particular Employments
Chapter 3 Service Without Employment
Chapter 4 Lost and Unclaimed Property
Title 7 Carriage
Chapter 1 Carriage in General
Chapter 2 Carriage of Persons
Chapter 3 Carriage of Property
Chapter 4 Carriage of Messages
Chapter 5 Common Carriers
Title 8 Involuntary Trusts
Title 9 Agency
Chapter 1 Agency in General
Chapter 2 Particular Agencies
Chapter 3 Statutory Short Form Power of Attorney [Repealed]
Chapter 3.5 Uniform Statutory Form Power of Attorney Act [Repealed]
Chapter 4 Statutory Form Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care [Repealed]
Chapter 5 Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Powers of Attorney [Repealed]
Title 10 Recording Artist Contracts
Title 10a Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations and Their Members [Repealed]
Title 11 Pharmaceutical Services
Title 12 Indemnity
Title 13 Suretyship
Title 13.5 Obligation To Defend Action
Title 13.7 [Inoperative] Obligation To Settle Insurance Claims Fairly
Title 14 Lien
Chapter 1 Liens in General
Chapter 2 Mortgage
Chapter 2a Home Equity Loan Disclosure Act
Chapter 2b Automobile Sales Finance Act
Chapter 2c Real Property Sales Contracts
Chapter 2d Vehicle Leasing Act
Chapter 2e Controlled Escrows
Chapter 3 Pledge [Repealed]
Chapter 3a Trust Receipts [Repealed]
Chapter 3b Assignment of Accounts Receivable [Repealed]
Chapter 3c Inventory Liens [Repealed]
Chapter 3.5 Health Care Liens
Chapter 4 Hospital Liens
Chapter 5 Respondentia [Repealed]
Chapter 6 Other Liens
Chapter 6.5 Liens on Vehicles
Chapter 6.7 Livestock Service Lien
Chapter 7 Stoppage in Transit
Chapter 8 Design Professionals’ Liens [Repealed]
Title 15 Works of Improvement [Repealed]
Chapter 1 General Definitions [Repealed]
Chapter 2 Mechanics’ Liens [Repealed]
Chapter 3 Stop Notices for Private Works of Improvement [Repealed]
Chapter 4 Stop Notice for Public Work [Repealed]
Chapter 5 General Provisions Relating to Bonds [Repealed]
Chapter 6 Payment Bond for Private Works [Repealed]
Chapter 7 Payment Bond for Public Works [Repealed]
Chapter 8 Miscellaneous Provisions [Repealed]
Title 16 General Provisions
Title 17 Year 2000 Information Disclosures
Title 18 Providers of Health and Safety Labor or Services
DIVISION 4 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 1 Relief
Title 1 Relief in General
Title 2 Compensatory Relief
Chapter 1 Damages in General
Chapter 2 Measure of Damages
Title 3 Specific and Preventive Relief
Chapter 1 General Principles
Chapter 1.5 Investment Advisers
Chapter 2 Specific Relief
Chapter 3 Preventive Relief
Title 4 Uniform Single Publication Act
Title 5 Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Title 6 Interference With Access to Health Care
Title 7 Duty of Health Care Service Plans and Managed Care Entities
Part 2 Special Relations of Debtor and Creditor
Title 1 General Principles
Title 2 Void and Voidable Transfers and Undertakings
Chapter 1 Uniform Voidable Transactions Act
Chapter 2 Conveyance of Personal Property Without Delivery
Chapter 3 Undertaking in Voidable Transfer Action
Title 3 Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors [Repealed]
Part 3 Nuisance
Title 1 General Principles
Title 2 Public Nuisances
Title 3 Private Nuisances
Title 4 Motion Pictures
Part 4 Maxims Of Jurisprudence
Part 5 Common Interest Developments
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Application of Act
Chapter 3 Governing Documents
Chapter 4 Ownership and Transfer of Interests
Chapter 5 Property Use and Maintenance
Chapter 6 Association Governance
Chapter 7 Finances
Chapter 8 Assessments and Assessment Collection
Chapter 9 Insurance and Liability
Chapter 10 Dispute Resolution and Enforcement
Chapter 11 Construction Defect Litigation
Part 5.3 Commercial and Industrial Common Interest Developments
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Application of Act
Chapter 3 Governing Documents
Chapter 4 Ownership and Transfer of Interests
Chapter 5 Property Use and Maintenance
Chapter 6 Association Governance
Chapter 7 Assessments and Assessment Collection
Chapter 8 Insurance and Liability
Chapter 9 Dispute Resolution and Enforcement
Chapter 10 Construction Defect Litigation
Part 5.5 Automatic Checkout System
Part 6 Works of Improvement
Title 1 Works of Improvement Generally
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Notice
Chapter 3 Waiver and Release
Chapter 4 Bonds
Title 2 Private Works of Improvement
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Preliminary Notice
Chapter 3 Design Professionals Lien
Chapter 4 Mechanics Lien
Chapter 5 Stop Payment Notice
Chapter 6 Payment Bond
Chapter 7 Security for Large Project
Chapter 8 Prompt Payment
Title 3 Public Work of Improvement
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Completion
Chapter 3 Preliminary Notice
Chapter 4 Stop Payment Notice
Chapter 5 Payment Bond
Part 7 Uniform Parentage Act [Repealed]
Part 8 Automatic Checkout System
