Civil Code Quotes

“Civil Code §1947.3 provides that a landlord or landlord's agent must allow a tenant to pay rent and the security deposit by at least one form of payment that is neither cash nor electronic funds transfer, unless the tenant has previously attempted to pay with a check drawn on insufficient funds or stopped payment, in which case the landlord may demand cash for up to the next three months. Any waiver of the tenant's rights under this section is void.”
― Myron Moskovitz, California Eviction Defense Manual

“The common law seems too shapeless, too complex. There are too many books. The law is too unknowable. It can never be restated authoritatively. A code may be "interpreted" totally out of shape. But at least it has an authoritative text. It can be copied in letter if nothing else.

The desire for a code was, among other things, a desire to limit autocracy. The power and discretion of the magistrates in Massachusetts Bay was at first virtually unlimited. Out of an urge by some to control this power came the Body of Liberties (1641).”
― Lawrence Friedman