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The Civil Code of California is a collection of statutes for the State of California. The code is made up of statutes which govern the general obligations and rights of persons within the jurisdiction of California. [ 1] It was based on a civil code originally prepared by David Dudley Field II in 1865 for the state of New York (but which was ...
The California Civil Rights Department ( CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)) is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence. It is the largest state civil rights agency in the United ...
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
October–November – Great Fires of 1947: Forest fires in Maine consume more than 200,000 acres of wooded land statewide, including over 17,000 acres on Mount Desert Island alone. 16 persons are killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed in the blazes, with total property damage exceeding $23 million.
1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
I, XIV. Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that applied the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to state law. [ 1] Before this decision, the clause, which states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", [ 2] imposed limits only on the ...
The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ( German: [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪçəs ɡəˈzɛtsbuːx] ⓘ, lit. 'Civil Law Book' ), abbreviated BGB, is the civil code of Germany, codifying most generally-applicably private law. [ 1] In development since 1881, it became effective on 1 January 1900, and was considered a massive and groundbreaking project.
The history of codification dates back to ancient Babylon.The earliest surviving civil code is the Code of Ur-Nammu, written around 2100–2050 BC.The Corpus Juris Civilis, a codification of Roman law produced between 529 and 534 AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, forms the basis of civil law legal systems that would rule over Continental Europe.