[Mojave]

The common law was derived from England

The alcalde is Spanish.

[jf55510]

The alcalde is Spanish.

And your point is? California, being formerly a Spanish colony or what have you, was government by Spanish civil law. California changed over to a common law system from the civil law system in the 1800's and naturally part of the Spanish civil law stayed in the code. Further more, many Western states have civil law principles in their codes such as community property even though they are common law jurisdictions.