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  2. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

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    There are 58 counties of California currently.. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 significant proposals prior to the 21st century.

  3. Partition (law) - Wikipedia

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    Effective January 1, 2023, California became the first state to expand the appraisal buyout process under the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act to non-heirs partition actions. [11] The passage of the act in all 50 states could mitigate the impact of partition sales on heirs’ property owners.

  4. California Codes - Wikipedia

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    In turn, it was the California Practice Act that served as the foundation of the California Code of Civil Procedure. New York never enacted Field's proposed civil or political codes, and belatedly enacted his proposed penal and criminal procedure codes only after California, but they were the basis of the codes enacted by California in 1872. [11]

  5. List of U.S. county secession proposals - Wikipedia

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    In Northern California, four proposed county plans failed in the 1990s: Redwood County (western parts of Mendocino and Sonoma counties), Tahoe County (eastern parts of Nevada, Placer and El Dorado counties 1996–1998), Central Valley County (of western Merced and Fresno counties), and Sequoia County (of southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino ...

  6. California Civil Code - Wikipedia

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    David Dudley Field II's audacity in trying to codify all of the general principles of the common law (including the law of property, domestic relations, contracts, and torts) into general statutory law in the form of a civil code was extremely controversial in the American legal community, both in his time and ever since.

  7. List of state partition proposals in the United States

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    1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.

  8. Humpback whale makes one of the longest migrations ever recorded

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    A male humpback whale made one of the longest and most unusual migrations on record for the species, an anomaly scientists say might be linked to climate change.

  9. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    The widespread distribution of Hollywood motion pictures and television shows has given millions of media consumers worldwide some degree of superficial familiarity with California law. For example, the section numbers of the California Penal Code have become familiar to viewers around the world. Section 187 (murder) [27] is probably the most ...