Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 3 > Chapter 4 > Article 4.7 - Contracts For Legal Services

• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See California Food and Agricultural Code 38
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Food and Agricultural Code 49
• Writing: includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. See California Financial Code 8