Words used in this code in the present tense include the future
as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include
the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and
the plural the singular; the word person includes a corporation as
well as a natural person; county includes city and county; writing
includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or
declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or
affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify," and every written one
in the term "depose"; signature or subscription includes mark, when
the person cannot write, his name being written near it, by a person
who writes his own name as a witness; provided, that when a signature
is by mark it must in order that the same may be acknowledged or may
serve as the signature to any sworn statement be witnessed by two
persons who must subscribe their own names as witnesses thereto.  The
following words have in this code the signification attached to them
in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context:
   1. The word "property" includes property real and personal;
   2. The words "real property" are coextensive with lands,
tenements, and hereditaments;
   3. The words "personal property" include money, goods, chattels,
things in action, and evidences of debt;
   4. The word "month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise
expressed;
   5. The word "will" includes codicil;
   6. The word "section" whenever hereinafter employed refers to a
section of this code, unless some other code or statute is expressly
mentioned.

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