THE CODES AND STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, AS AMENDED AND IN FORCE AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1901, WITH NOTES CONTAINING REFERENCES TO ALL THE DECISIONS OF THE THE CODES, AND TO ADJUDICATIONS OF THE COURTS OF L 8821 JAN 15 1934 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, By A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1901 BY THE BANCROFT-WHITNEY CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. This edition of the codes and statutes of California is primarily based upon the well-known and justly esteemed edition of such laws prepared by Mr. F. P. Deering, of the San Francisco Bar, and published in 1885, and it has been the endeavor of the editor and publishers to adhere as closely as circumstances would permit to the general plan adopted in Mr. Deering's work. Some changes, however, have been made in the present edition, which it is hoped will commend themselves to the profession. The edition of Mr. Deering was contained in four volumes, and the general statutes, with few exceptions, were inserted in the respective codes under sections appropriate to their subject matter. In the present edition the scope of the annotations has been extended to include references to the valuable notes contained in the American Decisions, the American Reports, and the American State Reports, which are germane to the subject matters embraced in the text of the codes and statutes, and such general statutes will be contained in a separate volume, and will be annotated in the same manner and as fully as the codes themselves. It is intended to embody in the text of the present edition all amendments made to the codes and statutes as the result of the recommendations made to the legislature by the present commission for the revision and reform of the law, and to annotate the same by references to pertinent decisions brought down to as late a date as possible. That commission has thus far revised only three. of the codes, to wit, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Civil Code, and the Penal Code, and consequently these codes only are now published, the annotations in which have been brought down to and including the one hundred and thirtieth volume of California Reports. Upon the completion of the work of the commission the Political Code and the volume containing the general statutes will be published, with annotations brought down to the date of their publication. An entirely new index has been prepared for each volume, and a new general index will be prepared for the entire work. July 20, 1901. C. P. P. (iii) |