How have sections of the California Civil Code dealing with transfers of real property been interpreted?

It is suggested by respondent that while in general the rule of liberal construction enjoined by this code section must be followed in construing the sections of the Civil Code, a statute providing a mode of divesting title to property must be strictly construed and followed. No good reason is suggested why sections of the Civil Code dealing with transfers of real property, should be excluded from the general provisions of section 4, which in terms applies to every section of that code without exception and it was expressly held in Tenant v. John Tennant Memorial Home, 167 Cal. 570, 573, 140 P. 242, that the provisions of the Civil Code dealing with transfers of real property are, as required by section 4, to be 'liberally construed with a view to effect its object[s].'