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2025 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section 13.
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CA Civ Code § 13 (2025)
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13. Words and phrases are construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, or are defined in the succeeding section, are to be construed according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning or definition.
(Enacted 1872.)
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