California Corporate & Securities Law

Terminus was the Roman deity in charge of boundaries.  At the end of the old year, Romans would celebrate the festival of Terminalia in his honor.  The English word "terminate" is derived from this ancient god's name.  

Section 16600 of the California Business & Professions Code provides that except for certain statutory exceptions "every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent...

California courts generally will apply Section 187 of the Restatement Second of Conflicts of Laws when deciding choice of law questions.  Nedlloyd Lines B.V. v. Superior Court, 3 Cal. 4th 459, 465 (1992). Until now, it hasn't been known whether a...

Known for the elegance of his Latin, French humanist Marc Antoine Muret observed "que Graece Latineque sciat, is, quocunque terrarum venerit, apud plerosque admirationi erit (and whoever knows Greek or Latin, wherever in the world she shall go, will...

Section 1608 of the California Civil Code has been on the books since 1872.  It provides:

Consider the following provision of in a contract between a general contractor and a subcontractor:

Rugger Investment Group LLC contracted to sell an airplane to Magic Carpet Ride, LLC (MCR). Rugger deposited a lien release into escrow 8 days late. MCR succeeded in obtaining summary judgment on its breach of contract claim. The Court of Appeal...

"Oral" is derived from the Latin word, os, meaning mouth.  "'Oral' means spoken in the sense that the mouth is used to articulate words or sounds."  People v. Gonzalez, 2 Cal. 5th 1138, 1142 (2017). "Oral" is often confused with "verbal" which means...

Attorneys often sign settlement agreements under the words "approved as to form" or "approved as to form and content". In signing the settlement agreement, an attorney may not expect to be bound by the settlement, but should she? That question was...