California

Civil Code

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• § 1997.210 — (a) Subject to the limitations in this chapter, a lease may include a restriction on use of leased property by a tenant.
• § 1997.220 — An ambiguity in a restriction on use of leased property by a tenant shall be construed in favor of unrestricted use.
• § 1997.230 — A restriction on use of leased property by a tenant may absolutely prohibit a change in use.
• § 1997.240 — A restriction on use of leased property by a tenant may provide that a change in use is subject to any express standard or condition.
• § 1997.250 — A restriction on use of leased property by a tenant may require the landlord’s consent for a change in use subject to any express standard or condition for giving or withholding consent, including, bu
• § 1997.260 — If a restriction on use of leased property by a tenant requires the landlord’s consent for a change in use but provides no standard for giving or withholding consent, the restriction shall be construe
• § 1997.270 — (a) Section 1997.
• § 2 — This Code takes effect at twelve o'clock noon, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
• § 20 — No statute, law, or rule is continued in force because it is consistent with the provisions of this Code on the same subject; but in all cases provided for by this Code, all statutes, laws, and rules
• § 2019 — An agent must not exceed the limits of his actual authority, as defined by the Title on Agency.
• § 2020 — An agent must use ordinary diligence to keep his principal informed of his acts in the course of the agency.
• § 2021 — An agent employed to collect a negotiable instrument must collect it promptly, and take all measures necessary to charge the parties thereto, in case of its dishonor; and, if it is a bill of exchange,
• § 2022 — A mere agent of an agent is not responsible as such to the principal of the latter.
• § 2026 — A factor is an agent who, in the pursuit of an independent calling, is employed by another to sell property for him, and is vested by the latter with the possession or control of the property, or auth
• § 2027 — A factor must obey the instructions of his principal to the same extent as any other employé, notwithstanding any advances he may have made to his principal upon the property consigned to him, except
• § 2028 — A factor may sell property consigned to him on such credit as is usual; but, having once agreed with the purchaser upon the term of credit, may not extend it.
• § 2029 — A factor who charges his principal with a guaranty commission upon a sale, thereby assumes absolutely to pay the price when it falls due, as if it were a debt of his own, and not as a mere guarantor f
• § 2030 — A factor who receives property for sale, under a general agreement or usage to guarantee the sales or the remittance of the proceeds, cannot relieve himself from responsibiliy therefor without the con
• § 2078 — One who officiously, and without the consent of the real or apparent owner of a thing, takes it into his possession for the purpose of rendering a service about it, must complete such service, and use
• § 2079 — (a) It is the duty of a real estate broker or salesperson, licensed under Division 4 (commencing with Section 10000) of the Business and Professions Code, to a prospective buyer of residential real pr
• § 2079.1 — The provisions of this article relating sale transactions of residential real property comprising one to four dwelling units apply with equal force to leases of that property that include an option to
• § 2079.10 — (a) If the informational booklet published pursuant to Section 25402.
• § 2079.10.5 — (a) Every contract for the sale of single-family residential real property entered into on or after July 1, 2013, shall contain, in not less than 8-point type, a notice as specified below: NOTICE REGA
• § 2079.10a — (a) Every lease or rental agreement for single-family residential real property entered into on or after July 1, 1999, any leasehold interest in real property consisting of multiunit residential prope
• § 2079.11 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), to the extent permitted by law, the consumer information publications referred to in this article, including, but not limited to, the information booklets de
• § 2079.12 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the imprecision of terms in the opinion rendered in Easton v.
• § 2079.13 — As used in this section and Sections 2079.
• § 2079.14 — (a) A copy of the disclosure form specified in Section 2079.
• § 2079.15 — In any circumstance in which the seller or buyer refuses to sign an acknowledgment of receipt pursuant to Section 2079.
• § 2079.16 — The disclosure form required by Section 2079.
• § 2079.17 — (a) As soon as practicable, the buyer’s agent shall disclose to the buyer and seller whether the agent is acting in the real property transaction as the buyer’s agent, or as a dual agent representing
• § 2079.19 — The payment of compensation or the obligation to pay compensation to an agent by the seller or buyer is not necessarily determinative of a particular agency relationship between an agent and the selle
• § 2079.2 — The standard of care owed by a broker under this article is the degree of care that a reasonably prudent real estate licensee would exercise and is measured by the degree of knowledge through educatio
• § 2079.20 — Nothing in this article prevents an agent from selecting, as a condition of the agent’s employment, a specific form of agency relationship not specifically prohibited by this article if the requiremen
• § 2079.21 — (a) A dual agent may not, without the express permission of the seller, disclose to the buyer any confidential information obtained from the seller.
• § 2079.22 — Nothing in this article precludes a seller’s agent from also being a buyer’s agent.
• § 2079.23 — (a) A contract between the principal and agent may be modified or altered to change the agency relationship at any time before the performance of the act which is the object of the agency with the wri
• § 2079.24 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to either diminish the duty of disclosure owed buyers and sellers by agents and their associate licensees, subagents, and employees or to relieve agents and
• § 2079.25 — The provisions of subdivision (d) of Section 1102.
• § 2079.26 — (a) A person shall not make an unsolicited offer to purchase residential real property in the 90049, 90263, 90265, 90272, 90290, 90402, 91001, 91024, 91103, 91104, 91106, 91107, 91301, 91302, or 91320
• § 2079.3 — The inspection to be performed pursuant to this article does not include or involve an inspection of areas that are reasonably and normally inaccessible to this type of an inspection, nor an affirmati
• § 2079.4 — In no event shall the time for commencement of legal action for breach of duty imposed by this article exceed two years from the date of possession, which means the date of recordation, the date of cl
• § 2079.5 — Nothing in this article relieves a buyer or prospective buyer of the duty to exercise reasonable care to protect himself or herself, including those facts which are known to or within the diligent att
• § 2079.6 — This article does not apply to sales which are required to be preceded by the furnishing, to a prospective buyer, of a copy of a public report pursuant to Section 11018.
• § 2079.7 — (a) If a consumer information booklet described in Section 10084.
• § 2079.8 — (a) If a Homeowner’s Guide to Earthquake Safety described in Section 10149 of the Business and Professions Code is delivered to a buyer in connection with the sale of real property, including property
• § 2079.9 — (a) If a Commercial Property Owner’s Guide to Earthquake Safety described in Section 10147 of the Business and Professions Code is delivered to a buyer in connection with the sale of real property, in
• § 2080 — Any person who finds a thing lost is not bound to take charge of it, unless the person is otherwise required to do so by contract or law, but when the person does take charge of it he or she is thence
• § 2080.1 — (a) If the owner is unknown or has not claimed the property, the person saving or finding the property shall, if the property is of the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, within a reasonable
• § 2080.10 — (a) When a public agency obtains possession of personal property from a person for temporary safekeeping, the public agency shall do all of the following: (1) Take responsibility for the storage, docu
• § 2080.2 — If the owner appears within 90 days, after receipt of the property by the police department or sheriff’s department, proves his ownership of the property, and pays all reasonable charges, the police d
• § 2080.3 — (a) If the reported value of the property is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or more and no owner appears and proves his or her ownership of the property within 90 days, the police department or sher
• § 2080.4 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2080.
• § 2080.5 — The police department or sheriff’s department may sell such property by public auction, in the manner and upon the notice of sale of personal property under execution, if it is a thing which is common
• § 2080.6 — (a) Any public agency may elect to be governed by the provisions of this article with respect to disposition of personal property found or saved on property subject to its jurisdiction, or may adopt r
• § 2080.7 — The provisions of this article have no application to things which have been intentionally abandoned by their owner.
• § 2080.8 — (a) The Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of the California State University, as applicable, may provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruct
• § 2081 — When any goods, merchandise, or other property has been received by any railroad or express company, other common carrier, commission merchant, innkeeper, or warehouseman, for transportation or safeke
• § 2081.1 — If within 60 days after its receipt no person calls for the property and pays the freight and charges upon it, the carrier, commission merchant, innkeeper, or warehouseman may sell the property, or so
• § 2081.2 — If any surplus remains after paying the freight, storage, expenses of sale, and other reasonable charges, the sum remaining shall be paid over to the owner of the property, upon his demand at any time
• § 2081.3 — If the owner or his agent fails to demand the surplus within 60 days after the sale, it shall be paid into the county treasury, subject to the order of the owner.
• § 2081.4 — After the storage of the property the responsibility of the carrier, commission merchant, innkeeper, or warehouseman ceases.
• § 2081.5 — When any commission merchant or warehouseman receives produce, merchandise, or other property on consignment and makes advances upon it, either to the owner or for freight and charges, if the advances
• § 2081.6 — All proceedings pursuant to this article are governed entirely by its provisions and are not controlled or affected by Article 2, Chapter 3, Title 7, Part 4, Division 3 of this code.
• § 2082 — The fees of officers under this chapter are the same allowed by law for similar services, and shall be paid by the taker up or finder and recovered from the owner.
• § 2085 — The contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages, from one place to another.
• § 2086 — Carriage is either: 1.
• § 2087 — Carriers upon the ocean and upon arms of the sea are marine carriers.
• § 2088 — Rights and duties peculiar to carriers by sea are defined by Acts of Congress.
• § 2089 — Carriers without reward are subject to the same rules as employ G s without reward, except so far as is otherwise provided by this Title.
• § 2090 — A carrier without reward, who has begun to perform his undertaking, must complete it in like manner as if he had received a reward, unless he restores the person or thing carried to as favorable a pos
• § 2096 — A carrier of persons without reward must use ordinary care and diligence for their safe carriage.
• § 21 — This Act, whenever cited, enumerated, referred to, or amended, may be designated simply as “T he C ivil C ode ,” adding, when necessary, the number of the section.
• § 2100 — A carrier of persons for reward must use the utmost care and diligence for their safe carriage, must provide everything necessary for that purpose, and must exercise to that end a reasonable degree of
• § 2101 — A carrier of persons for reward is bound to provide vehicles safe and fit for the purposes to which they are put, and is not excused for default in this respect by any degree of care.
• § 2102 — A carrier of persons for reward must not overcrowd or overload his vehicle.
• § 2103 — A carrier of persons for reward must give to passengers all such accommodations as are usual and reasonable, and must treat them with civility, and give them a reasonable degree of attention.
• § 2104 — A carrier of persons for reward must travel at a reasonable rate of speed, and without any unreasonable delay, or deviation from his proper route.
• § 2110 — Property carried is called freight; the reward, if any, to be paid for its carriage is called freightage; the person who delivers the freight to the carrier is called the consignor; and the person to
• § 2114 — A carrier of property for reward must use at least ordinary care and diligence in the performance of all his duties.
• § 2115 — Subject to Section 7303 of the Uniform Commercial Code, a carrier must comply with the directions of the consignor or consignee to the same extent that an employee is bound to comply with those of his
• § 2118 — Subject to Section 7303 of the Uniform Commercial Code, a carrier of property must deliver it to the consignee, at the place to which it is addressed, in the manner usual at that place.
• § 2119 — If there is no usage to the contrary at the place of delivery, freight must be delivered as follows: 1.
• § 2136 — A carrier may require his freightage to be paid upon his receiving the freight; but if he does not demand it then, he cannot until he is ready to deliver the freight to the consignee.
• § 2137 — The consignor of freight is presumed to be liable for the freightage, but if the contract between him and the carrier provides that the consignee shall pay it, and the carrier allows the consignee to
• § 2138 — The consignee of freight is liable for the freightage, if he accepts the freight with notice of the intention of the consignor that he should pay it.
• § 2139 — No freightage can be charged upon the natural increase of freight.
• § 2140 — If freightage is apportioned by a bill of lading or other contract made between a consignor and carrier, the carrier is entitled to payment, according to the apportionment, for so much as he delivers.
• § 2141 — If a part of the freight is accepted by a consignee, without a specific objection that the rest is not delivered, the freightage must be apportioned and paid as to that part, though not apportioned in
• § 2142 — If a consignee voluntarily receives freight at a place short of the one appointed for delivery, the carrier is entitled to a just proportion of the freightage, according to distance.
• § 2143 — If freight is carried further, or more expeditiously, than was agreed upon by the parties, the carrier is not entitled to additional compensation, and cannot refuse to deliver it, on the demand of the
• § 2144 — A carrier has a lien for (a) freightage and for services rendered at request of shipper or consignee in and about the transportation of the property, (b) care and preservation of the property, (c) mon
• § 2161 — A carrier of messages for reward, other than by telegraph or telephone, must deliver them at the place to which they are addressed, or to the person for whom they are intended.
• § 2169 — A common carrier must, if able to do so, accept and carry whatever is offered to him, at a reasonable time and place, of a kind that he undertakes or is accustomed to carry.
• § 2170 — A common carrier must not give preference in time, price, or otherwise, to one person over another.
• § 2171 — A common carrier must always give a preference in time, and may give a preference in price, to the United States and to this State.
• § 2173 — A common carrier is entitled to a reasonable compensation and no more, which he may require to be paid in advance.
• § 2175 — A common carrier cannot be exonerated, by any agreement made in anticipation thereof, from liability for the gross negligence, fraud, or willful wrong of himself or his servants.
• § 2178 — A common carrier of property by steam or electric railroad which accepts for transportation, storage, handling or safe-keeping, as a part of or in connection with passenger transportation, property ca
• § 2180 — A common carrier of persons, unless his vehicle is fitted for the reception of persons exclusively, must receive and carry a reasonable amount of baggage for each passenger without charge, except for
• § 2181 — Luggage may consist of whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use and convenience, according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, either with reference t
• § 2182 — The liability of a carrier for luggage received by him with a passenger is the same as that of a common carrier of property.
• § 2184 — A common carrier of persons must provide a sufficient number of vehicles to accommodate all the passengers who can be reasonably expected to require carriage at any one time.
• § 2185 — A common carrier of persons must provide every passenger with a seat.
• § 2186 — A common carrier of persons may make rules for the conduct of his business, and may require passengers to conform to them, if they are lawful, public, uniform in their application, and reasonable.
• § 2187 — A common carrier may demand the fare of passengers, either at starting or at any subsequent time.
• § 2188 — A passenger who refuses to pay his fare or to conform to any lawful regulation of the carrier, may be ejected from the vehicle by the carrier.
• § 2190 — After having ejected a passenger, a carrier has no right to require the payment of any part of his fare.
• § 2191 — A common carrier has a lien upon the luggage of a passenger for the payment of such fare as he is entitled to from him.
• § 2194 — Unless the consignor accompanies the freight and retains exclusive control thereof, an inland common carrier of property is liable, from the time that he accepts until he relieves himself from liabili
• § 2195 — A common carrier is liable, even in the cases excepted by the last section, if his want of ordinary care exposes the property to the cause of the loss.
• § 2197 — (a) Liability for storage or equipment rental charges assessed against a motor carrier by a railroad or steamship company shall be as follows if the charges arise out of a delay caused by the consigno
• § 2197.5 — (a) In addition to the liability established by Section 2197, the consignee is liable to the motor carrier for the charges if the freight is shipped prepaid and the delay was caused by either the cons
• § 22 — Law is a solemn expression of the will of the supreme power of the State.
• § 22.1 — The will of the supreme power is expressed: (a) By the Constitution.
• § 22.2 — The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of this State, is the rule of decision in all the co
• § 2203 — In respect to any service rendered by a common carrier about freight, other than its carriage and delivery, his rights and obligations are defined by the Titles on Deposit and Service.
• § 2205 — The liability of any stageline, transfer company, or other common carriers operating over the public highways for the loss of or for damage to any baggage shall not exceed the sum of five hundred doll
• § 2207 — A carrier of messages by telegraph must, if it is practicable, transmit every such message immediately upon its receipt.
• § 2208 — A common carrier of messages, otherwise than by telegraph, must transmit messages in the order in which he receives them, except messages from agents of the United States or of this State, on public b
• § 2209 — Every person whose message is refused or postponed, contrary to the provisions of this Chapter, is entitled to recover from the carrier his actual damages, and fifty dollars in addition thereto.
• § 2210 — For purposes of this article: (a) “Participant” means a space flight participant as defined in Section 50902 of Title 51 of the United States Code.
• § 2211 — (a) A space flight entity providing space flight activities to a participant shall have each participant sign a warning statement that shall contain, at a minimum, and in addition to any language requ
• § 2212 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a space flight entity shall not be liable for participant injury arising out of space flight activities if both of the following apply: (1) The participant h
• § 2213 — This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Carrier of Passengers Act of 2024.
• § 2214 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Carrier of passengers” means a motor carrier, passenger carrier, or charter-party carrier of passengers that operates a motor vehicl
• § 2215 — (a) (1) This chapter applies to any carrier of passengers operating a motor vehicle who knows or reasonably should know that the motor vehicle will be transporting, from embarkation, 10 or more passen
• § 2216 — (a) Any of the following parties may bring a civil action seeking preventive relief, including for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order against the carrier of passeng
• § 2217 — (a) This chapter does not preempt, limit, prohibit, or otherwise affect the adoption, implementation, or enforcement of any local ordinance, code, regulation, or order related to carrier of passenger
• § 2218 — (a) The provisions of this chapter are severable.
• § 2223 — One who wrongfully detains a thing is an involuntary trustee thereof, for the benefit of the owner.
• § 2224 — One who gains a thing by fraud, accident, mistake, undue influence, the violation of a trust, or other wrongful act, is, unless he or she has some other and better right thereto, an involuntary truste
• § 2224.5 — An action brought by the Attorney General pursuant to Section 2223 or 2224 may be brought at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued.
• § 2225 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Convicted felon” means any person convicted of a felony, or found not guilty by reason of insanity of a felony committed in California, either by a court or jury tria
• § 2295 — An agent is one who represents another, called the principal, in dealings with third persons.
• § 2296 — Any person having capacity to contract may appoint an agent, and any person may be an agent.
• § 2297 — An agent for a particular act or transaction is called a special agent.
• § 2298 — An agency is either actual or ostensible.
• § 2299 — An agency is actual when the agent is really employed by the principal.
• § 23 — With relation to the laws passed at the 1872 Session of the Legislature, the Political Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, and Penal Code, shall be construed as though each had been passed on t
• § 23.1 — The provisions of any law passed at the 1872 Session of the Legislature which contravene or are inconsistent with the provisions of any of the four codes passed at the 1872 Session prevail.
• § 23.2 — With relation to each other, the provisions of the four codes shall be construed as though all such codes had been passed at the same moment of time and were parts of the same statute.
• § 23.3 — If the provisions of any title conflict with or contravene the provisions of another title, the provisions of each title shall prevail as to all matters and questions arising out of the subject matter
• § 23.4 — If the provisions of any chapter conflict with or contravene the provisions of another chapter of the same title, the provisions of each chapter shall prevail as to all matters and questions arising o
• § 23.5 — If the provisions of any article conflict with or contravene the provisions of another article of the same chapter, the provisions of each article shall prevail as to all matters and questions arising
• § 23.6 — If conflicting provisions are found in different sections of the same chapter or article, the provisions of the sections last in numerical order shall prevail, unless such construction is inconsistent
• § 2300 — An agency is ostensible when the principal intentionally, or by want of ordinary care, causes a third person to believe another to be his agent who is not really employed by him.
• § 2304 — An agent may be authorized to do any acts which his principal might do, except those to which the latter is bound to give his personal attention.
• § 2305 — Every act which, according to this Code, may be done by or to any person, may be done by or to the agent of such person for that purpose, unless a contrary intention clearly appears.
• § 2306 — An agent can never have authority, either actual or ostensible, to do an act which is, and is known or suspected by the person with whom he deals, to be a fraud upon the principal.
• § 2307 — An agency may be created, and an authority may be conferred, by a precedent authorization or a subsequent ratification.
• § 2308 — A consideration is not necessary to make an authority, whether precedent or subsequent, binding upon the principal.
• § 2309 — An oral authorization is sufficient for any purpose, except that an authority to enter into a contract required by law to be in writing can only be given by an instrument in writing.
• § 2310 — A ratification can be made only in the manner that would have been necessary to confer an original authority for the act ratified, or where an oral authorization would suffice, by accepting or retaini
• § 2311 — Ratification of part of an indivisible transaction is a ratification of the whole.
• § 2312 — A ratification is not valid unless, at the time of ratifying the act done, the principal has power to confer authority for such an act.
• § 2313 — No unauthorized act can be made valid, retroactively, to the prejudice of third persons, without their consent.
• § 2314 — A ratification may be rescinded when made without such consent as is required in a contract, or with an imperfect knowledge of the material facts of the transaction ratified, but not otherwise.
• § 2315 — An agent has such authority as the principal, actually or ostensibly, confers upon him.
• § 2316 — Actual authority is such as a principal intentionally confers upon the agent, or intentionally, or by want of ordinary care, allows the agent to believe himself to possess.
• § 2317 — Ostensible authority is such as a principal, intentionally or by want of ordinary care, causes or allows a third person to believe the agent to possess.
• § 2318 — Every agent has actually such authority as is defined by this Title, unless specially deprived thereof by his principal, and has even then such authority ostensibly, except as to persons who have actu
• § 2319 — An agent has authority: 1.
• § 2320 — An agent has power to disobey instructions in dealing with the subject of the agency, in cases where it is clearly for the interest of his principal that he should do so, and there is not time to comm
• § 2321 — When an authority is given partly in general and partly in specific terms, the general authority gives no higher powers than those specifically mentioned.
• § 2322 — An authority expressed in general terms, however broad, does not authorize an agent to do any of the following: (a) Act in the agent’s own name, unless it is the usual course of business to do so.
• § 2323 — An authority to sell personal property includes authority to warrant the title of the principal, and the quality and quantity of the property.
• § 2324 — An authority to sell and convey real property includes authority to give the usual convenants of warranty.
• § 2325 — A general agent to sell, who is intrusted by the principal with the possession of the thing sold, has authority to receive the price.
• § 2326 — A special agent to sell has authority to receive the price on delivery of the thing sold, but not afterwards.
• § 2330 — An agent represents his principal for all purposes within the scope of his actual or ostensible authority, and all the rights and liabilities which would accrue to the agent from transactions within s
• § 2331 — A principal is bound by an incomplete execution of an authority, when it is consistent with the whole purpose and scope thereof, but not otherwise.
• § 2332 — As against a principal, both principal and agent are deemed to have notice of whatever either has notice of, and ought, in good faith and the exercise of ordinary care and diligence, to communicate to
• § 2333 — When an agent exceeds his authority, his principal is bound by his authorized acts so far only as they can be plainly separated from those which are unauthorized.
• § 2334 — A principal is bound by acts of his agent, under a merely ostensible authority, to those persons only who have in good faith, and without want of ordinary care, incurred a liability or parted with val
• § 2335 — If exclusive credit is given to an agent by the person dealing with him, his principal is exonerated by payment or other satisfaction made by him to his agent in good faith, before receiving notice of
• § 2336 — One who deals with an agent without knowing or having reason to believe that the agent acts as such in the transaction, may set off against any claim of the principal arising out of the same, all clai
• § 2337 — An instrument within the scope of his authority by which an agent intends to bind his principal, does bind him if such intent is plainly inferable from the instrument itself.
• § 2338 — Unless required by or under the authority of law to employ that particular agent, a principal is responsible to third persons for the negligence of his agent in the transaction of the business of the
• § 2339 — A principal is responsible for no other wrongs committed by his agent than those mentioned in the last section, unless he has authorized or ratified them, even though they are committed while the agen
• § 2342 — One who assumes to act as an agent thereby warrants, to all who deal with him in that capacity, that he has the authority which he assumes.
• § 2343 — One who assumes to act as an agent is responsible to third persons as a principal for his acts in the course of his agency, in any of the following cases, and in no others: 1.
• § 2344 — If an agent receives anything for the benefit of his principal, to the possession of which another person is entitled, he must, on demand, surrender it to such person, or so much of it as he has under
• § 2345 — The provisions of this Article are subject to the provisions of Part I, Division First, of this Code.
• § 2349 — An agent, unless specially forbidden by his principal to do so, can delegate his powers to another person in any of the following cases, and in no others: 1.
• § 2350 — If an agent employs a sub-agent without authority, the former is a principal and the latter his agent, and the principal of the former has no connection with the latter.
• § 2351 — A sub-agent, lawfully appointed, represents the principal in like manner with the original agent; and the original agent is not responsible to third persons for the acts of the sub-agent.
• § 2355 — An agency is terminated, as to every person having notice thereof, by any of the following: (a) The expiration of its term.
• § 2356 — (a) Unless the power of an agent is coupled with an interest in the subject of the agency, it is terminated by any of the following: (1) Its revocation by the principal.
• § 2357 — For the purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 2356, in the case of a principal who is an absentee as defined in Section 1403 of the Probate Code, a person shall be deemed to be without actual knowled
• § 2362 — An auctioneer, in the absence of special authorization or usage to the contrary, has authority from the seller, only as follows: 1.
• § 2363 — An auctioneer has authority from a bidder at the auction, as well as from the seller, to bind both by a memorandum of the contract, as prescribed in the Title on Sale.
• § 2367 — A factor is an agent, as defined by Section 2026.
• § 2368 — In addition to the authority of agents in general, a factor has actual authority from his principal, unless specially restricted: 1.
• § 2369 — A factor has ostensible authority to deal with the property of his principal as his own, in transactions with persons not having notice of the actual ownership.
• § 2400 — Powers of attorney are governed by the Power of Attorney Law (Division 4.
• § 2500 — As used in this title: (a) “Royalty recipient” means a party to a contract for the furnishing of services in the production of sound recordings, as defined in Section 101 of Title 17 of the United Sta
• § 2501 — Notwithstanding any provision of a contract described in Section 2500: (a) A royalty recipient may audit the books and records of the royalty reporting party to determine if the royalty recipient earn
• § 2505 — (a) For purposes of this title: (1) “Assistive technology device” has the same meaning as in Section 7002 of Title 9 of the California Code of Regulations.
• § 2505.5 — (a) The Department of Insurance shall conduct a study and report the findings to the Legislature and the insurance committees of both houses no later than December 31, 2026, that does all of the follo