Dartmouth College v. Woodward,17 U.S. 518 (1819). The legislature can’t claim not to have known about the advisability of including a reservation clause in the Beverly-Killea Act because it had taken care to do so when it enacted the General Corporation Law,Cal. Corp. Code § 100(b) (“This title of the Corporations Code, or any division, part, chapter, article or section thereof, may at any time be amended or repealed.”) and when it had enacted the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994,Cal. Corp. Code 17713.05 (“This title, or any division, part, chapter, article, or section thereof, may at any time be amended or repealed.”).
The General Corporation Law is a part of the Corporations Code, but only a part. Cal. Corp. Code § 100(a) (“This division shall be known and may be cited as the General Corporation Law.”). More precisely, the General Corporation Law is Title 1, Division 1 of the Corporations Code.