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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Zbur</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 5 of the Civil Code, relating to civil law.</ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law provides for the construction of the Civil Code, as specified.</html:p>
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Section 5 of the
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<html:p>The provisions of this code, so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes or the common law, shall be construed as continuations thereof, and not as new enactments.</html:p>
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