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CHAPTER III.

General Rights of the State over Persons.

$ 37. Rights over persons enumerated.

37. The State has the following rights over persons within its limits, to be exercised in the cases and in the manner provided by law:

1. To punish for crime;

2. To imprison or confine for the protection of the public peace or health, or of individual life or safety;

3. To imprison or confine for the purpose of enforcing civil remedies;

4. To establish custody and restraint for the persons of idiots, lunatics, drunkards, and other persons of unsound mind;

5. To establish custody and restraint of paupers for the purpose of their maintenance;

6. To establish custody and restraint of minors unprovided for by natural guardians, for the purposes of their education, reformation and maintenance;

7. To require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town or village officers; in highway labor; in maintaining the public peace; in enforcing the service of process; in protecting life and property from fire, pestilence, wreck and flood; and in such other cases as are provided by statute.

Rights over persons-extend to those within its limits only, 53 Cal. 642. Declaration of rights of people, Const. Cal., art. 1, §§ 1-24.

Police powers of State-see $$ 2949-3387. Exclusion of paupers, etc., permissible, 42 Cal. 578.

CHAPTER IV.

General Rights of the State over Property.

§ 40. Original and ultimate title.

41. Property escheats, when.

§ 42. Intruders on public lands of the State.

43. Acquisition by taxation and assessment.

44. By right of eminent domain.

40. The original and ultimate right to all property, real and personal, within the limits of this State, is in the people thereof.

Ownership of property-by State, Civil Code, § 669.
Property escheats-when, § 41.

41. All property, real and personal, within the limits of this State, which does not belong to any person, belongs to the people. Whenever the title to any property fails for want of heirs or next of kin, it reverts to the people.

Lands owned by State-Civil Code, $ 670.

Waste or ungranted lands of State-removal of intruder upon, $ 42.

Escheated estates-see Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1269-1272. Non-resident aliens, rights in general, 2 Cal. 558; 5 Cal. 373, 381; 6 Cal. 250; 12 Cal. 450; 13 Cal. 159; 18 Cal. 217; 26 Cal. 455; 32 Cal. 376; unclaimed realty of, escheats to State, Civil Code, $$ 672, 1404-5; 5 Cal. 373; 13 Cal. 159; My. P. R. 19. Duty of Controller as to, § 437. Duty of AttorneyGeneral as to, § 474.

42. If any person, under any pretense of any claim inconsistent with the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State, intrudes upon any of the waste or ungranted lands of the State, the District Attorney of the county must immediately report the same to the Governor, who must thereupon, by a written order, direct the Sheriff of the county to remove the intruder; and if resistance to the execution of the order is made or threatened, the Sheriff may call to his aid the power of the county, as in cases of resistance to the writs of the people. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction of State-$§ 33.

Sheriff of the county-duties, liabilities, etc., §§ 4175-4193; may call to his aid the power of the county; see § 4176, subd. 5.

43. The State may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law.

Revenue and taxation-Const. Cal., art. 13, §§ 1-13; see Desty's Const. Cal. 336-355; also this Code, SS 3607-3900.

44. It may acquire or authorize others to acquire title to property, real or personal, for public use, in the cases and in the mode provided in Title VII., Part III., of THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.

Eminent domain-see Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1237-1263; also Desty's Const. Cal. 194-199. Generally. Civil Code, § 1001; Desty's Const. Cal. 194; nature of right, 18 Cal. 229; power of court, 47 Cal. 70; public necessity, 18 Cal. 229; 51 Cal. 269; enumerated uses, 51 Cal. 269. Corporations subject to, Const. Cal., art. 12, §8. Water frontages, subject to, Const. Cal., art. 15, § 1.

Compensation-obligatory, generally, 3 Cal. 69; 4 Cal. 414; 14 Cal. 106; 16 Cal. 153, 248; 18 Cal. 229; 19 Cal. 47; 22 Cal. 251, 434; 23 Cal. 323; 24 Cal. 427; 27 Cal. 171, 613; 28 Cal. 315, 662; 31 Cal. 215, 406; 32 Cal. 241, 500; 43 Cal. 79: 47 Cal. 541; 51 Cal. 577; 54 Cal. 430; further see Desty's Const. Cal. 197. Before possession, payment required, by Const. Cal., art. 1, § 14; see also 54 Cal. 324; previous rulings to similar effect, 4 Cal. 116; 7 Cal. 121, 577; 9 Cal. 595; 12 Cal. 500; 13 Cal. 306; 14 Cal. 106; 29 Cal. 112; 44 Cal. 52; 47 Cal. 517; 50 Cal. 284; 51 Cal. 266; 53 Cal. 208; but held otherwise in 31 Cal. 638.

TITLE II.

Persons Composing the People of the State.

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TITLE II.

Persons Composing the People of the State.

$50. Who are the people.
§ 51. Who are citizens.

§ 52. Residence, rules for determining.

50. The people, as a political body, consist:

1. Of citizens who are electors;

2. Of citizens not electors.

Electors-eligibility to office, §58; rights and duties, § 59; qualifications and disabilities of, §§ 1083, 1084; registration of, §§ 1094-1117

Elections-$$ 1041-1365.

51. The citizens of the State are:

1. All persons born in this State and residing within it, except the children of transient aliens and of alien public ministers and consuls;

2. All persons born out of this State who are citizens of the United States and residing within this State.

Residence-rules for determining, § 52.

Citizens-allegiance of, §§ 55, 56; when qualified electors, SS 1083, 1084. Persons not citizens-SS 57, 60, also § 54.

SUBDIVISION 2. Citizens of the United States naturalization laws; see Revised Stats. U. S. §§ 2165-2174. Naturalization papers, where procured; see Const. Cal., art. 6, §5. Decisions concerning naturalization, 5 Cal. 300 22 Cal. 83; 39 Cal. 98. Declaration of intention may be made before Clerk as well as Court; see 19 U. S. Stats., p. 2, amdt. approved Feb. 1, 1876.

52. Every person has, in law, a residence. In determining the place of residence the followingrules are to be observed: 1. It is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purpose, and to which he returns in seasons of repose;

2. There can only be one residence;

3. A residence cannot be lost until another is gained; 4. The residence of the father during his life, and after his death the residence of the mother, while she remains unmarried, is the residence of the unmarried minor child;

5. The residence of the husband is the residence of the wife;

6. The residence of an unmarried minor who has a parent living cannot be changed by either his own act or that of his guardian;

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