California Civil Code

The California Civil Code is a comprehensive statute governing the general rights and obligations of persons within California, adopted in 1872 as one of the original four California codes and signed into law by Governor Newton Booth. It was based on a civil code drafted by David Dudley Field II for New York in 1865, which was never enacted there, and it follows a civil law style tripartite structure covering personal rights, property rights, and obligations and contracts, plus general provisions, even though its substance was drawn largely from New York common and statutory law of the 1860s. It has been amended repeatedly since, most notably in 1992 when its family law provisions were moved into a new, separate California Family Code effective 1994. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/