California Code
DIVISION 2 - PROPERTY
PART 1 - PROPERTY IN GENERAL

TITLE 1 - NATURE OF PROPERTY

Section 654. - 654. The ownership of a thing is the right of...

Section 655. - 655. There may be ownership of all inanimate things which...

Section 656. - 656. Animals wild by nature are the subjects of ownership,...

Section 657. - 657. Property is either: l. Real or immovable; or, 2....

Section 658. - 658. Real or immovable property consists of: l. Land; 2....

Section 659. - 659. Land is the material of the earth, whatever may...

Section 660. - 660. A thing is deemed to be affixed to land...

Section 662. - 662. A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant...

Section 663. - 663. Every kind of property that is not real is...

TITLE 2 - OWNERSHIP

CHAPTER 1 - Owners

Section 669. - 669. All property has an owner, whether that owner is...

Section [670.]. - [670.] Section Six Hundred and Seventy. The State is the...

Section [671.]. - [671.] Any person, regardless of their citizenship status, may take,...

CHAPTER 2 - Modifications of Ownership

ARTICLE 1 - Interests in Property

Section 678. - 678. The ownership of property is either: 1. Absolute; or,...

Section 679. - 679. The ownership of property is absolute when a single...

Section 680. - 680. The ownership of property is qualified: 1. When it...

Section 681. - 681. The ownership of property by a single person is...

Section 682. - 682. The ownership of property by several persons is either:...

Section 682.1. - 682.1. (a) (1) Community property of spouses, when expressly declared...

Section 683. - 683. (a) A joint interest is one owned by two...

Section 683.1. - 683.1. No contract or other arrangement made after the effective...

Section 683.2. - 683.2. (a) Subject to the limitations and requirements of this...

Section 684. - 684. A partnership interest is one owned by several persons,...

Section 685. - 685. An interest in common is one owned by several...

Section 686. - 686. Every interest created in favor of several persons in...

Section 687. - 687. Community property is property that is community property under...

Section 688. - 688. In respect to the time of enjoyment, an interest...

Section 689. - 689. A present interest entitles the owner to the immediate...

Section 690. - 690. A future interest entitles the owner to the possession...

Section 691. - 691. A perpetual interest has a duration equal to that...

Section 692. - 692. A limited interest has a duration less than that...

Section 696. - 696. Two or more future interests may be created to...

Section 697. - 697. A future interest is not void merely because of...

Section 698. - 698. When a future interest is limited to successors, heirs,...

Section 699. - 699. Future interests pass by succession, will, and transfer, in...

Section 700. - 700. A mere possibility, such as the expectancy of an...

Section 701. - 701. In respect to real or immovable property, the interests...

Section 702. - 702. The names and classification of interests in real property...

Section 703. - 703. No future interest in property is recognized by the...

ARTICLE 2 - Conditions of Ownership

Section 707. - 707. The time when the enjoyment of property is to...

Section 708. - 708. Conditions are precedent or subsequent. The former fix the...

Section 709. - 709. If a condition precedent requires the performance of an...

Section [710.]. - [710.] Section Seven Hundred and Ten. Conditions imposing restraints upon...

Section 711. - 711. Conditions restraining alienation, when repugnant to the interest created,...

Section 711.5. - 711.5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 711 and 1916.5,...

Section 712. - 712. (a) Every provision contained in or otherwise affecting a...

Section 713. - 713. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of any ordinance, an owner...

Section 714. - 714. (a) Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any...

Section 714.1. - 714.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 714, an association may impose reasonable...

Section 714.3. - 714.3. (a) Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any...

Section 714.5. - 714.5. The covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other management documents...

Section 714.6. - 714.6. (a) Recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on...

ARTICLE 3 - Duration of Leases

Section 715. - 715. A lease to commence at a time certain or...

Section 717. - 717. No lease or grant of land for agricultural or...

Section 718. - 718. No lease or grant of any town or city...

Section 718f. - 718f. A lease of land for the purpose of effecting...

Section 719. - 719. Notwithstanding the 55-year limitation imposed by Section 718, property...

ARTICLE 4 - Accumulations

Section 722. - 722. Dispositions of the income of property to accrue and...

Section 723. - 723. All directions for the accumulation of the income of...

Section 724. - 724. (a) An accumulation of the income of property may...

Section 725. - 725. If the direction for an accumulation of the income...

Section 726. - 726. When one or more persons for whose benefit an...

CHAPTER 2.6 - Legal Estates Principal and Income Law

Section 731. - 731. This chapter may be cited as the Legal Estates...

Section 731.01. - 731.01. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the provisions of...

Section 731.02. - 731.02. This chapter shall apply to all transactions by which...

Section 731.03. - 731.03. (a) “Principal” as used in this chapter means any...

Section 731.04. - 731.04. This chapter shall govern the ascertainment of income and...

Section 731.05. - 731.05. (a) All receipts of money or other property paid...

Section 731.06. - 731.06. Whenever a tenant’s right to income shall cease by...

Section 731.07. - 731.07. (a) All dividends on shares of a corporation forming...

Section 731.08. - 731.08. Where any part of the principal consists of bonds...

Section 731.09. - 731.09. (a) Whenever a tenant is authorized by the terms...

Section 731.10. - 731.10. Where any part of the principal consists of animals...

Section 731.11. - 731.11. (a) Where any part of the principal consists of...

Section 731.12. - 731.12. Where any part of the principal consists of property...

Section 731.13. - 731.13. (a) Where any part of a principal in the...

Section 731.14. - 731.14. (a) Where any part of the principal in possession...

Section 731.15. - 731.15. (a) All ordinary expenses incurred in connection with the...

CHAPTER 3 - Rights of Owners

Section 732. - 732. The owner of a thing owns also all its...

Section 733. - 733. When, in consequence of a valid limitation of a...

CHAPTER 4 - Termination of Ownership

Section 739. - 739. A future interest, depending on the contingency of the...

Section 740. - 740. A future interest may be defeated in any manner...

Section 741. - 741. No future interest can be defeated or barred by...

Section 742. - 742. No future interest, valid in its creation, is defeated...

TITLE 3 - GENERAL DEFINITIONS

Section 748. - 748. The income of property, as the term is used...

Section 749. - 749. The delivery of the grant, where a limitation, condition,...