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  2. Partition (law) - Wikipedia

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    A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the owners of property. [1]

  3. 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.

  4. List of state partition proposals in the United States

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    The proposal was in reaction to laws raising real estate taxes, and shifting state education funding away from rural school districts and into more urban areas. Though organizers arranged for a series of straw polls that demonstrated widespread support for secession in nine counties, [44] the movement died out by the mid-1990s. [45]

  5. 1978 California Proposition 13 - Wikipedia

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    California also has high rates of migrants from other countries and states, [47] which has contributed to more demand for housing, and it has low amounts of moderately priced housing. The different tax treatment can make real estate more valuable to the current owner than to any potential buyer, so selling it often makes no economic sense. [3]

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

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    While laws making it easier to form new counties have passed since then, this split has not occurred. [38] Nye is the largest county in Nevada and the third largest in the entire U.S., although over 90% is federal land. Bullfrog County was formed by the state legislature in 1987 to gain contraol of Yucca Mountain. It was disincorporated when ...

  7. California Codes - Wikipedia

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    Thus, as a practical matter, most of the real work was performed by the Legislative Counsel's deputies and then approved by the Code Commissioners. [13] The Commission spent the next 24 years analyzing the massive body of uncodified law in the California Statutes and drafting almost all the other codes.

  8. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Witkin's Summary of California Law, a legal treatise popular with California judges and lawyers. The Constitution of California is the foremost source of state law. . Legislation is enacted within the California Statutes, which in turn have been codified into the 29 California Co

  9. Davis–Stirling Common Interest Development Act - Wikipedia

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    Under Davis–Stirling, a developer of a common interest development is able to create a homeowner association (HOA) to govern the development. As part of creating the HOA, the developer records a document known as the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions against the units or parcels within the HOA with the county recorder.