California Code
DIVISION 2 - PROPERTY
PART 4 - ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY

TITLE 1 - MODES IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE ACQUIRED

Section 1000. - 1000. Property is acquired by: 1. Occupancy; 2. Accession; 3....

Section 1001. - 1001. (a) As used in this section, “utility service” means...

Section 1002. - 1002. (a) Subject to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing...

TITLE 2 - OCCUPANCY

Section 1006. - 1006. Occupancy for any period confers a title sufficient against...

Section 1007. - 1007. Occupancy for the period prescribed by the Code of...

Section 1008. - 1008. No use by any person or persons, no matter...

Section 1009. - 1009. (a) The Legislature finds that: (1) It is in...

TITLE 3 - ACCESSION

CHAPTER 1 - Accession to Real Property

Section 1013. - 1013. When a person affixes his property to the land...

Section 1013.5. - 1013.5. (a) When any person, acting in good faith and,...

Section 1014. - 1014. Where, from natural causes, land forms by imperceptible degrees...

Section 1015. - 1015. If a river or stream, navigable or not navigable,...

Section 1016. - 1016. Islands and accumulations of land, formed in the beds...

Section 1017. - 1017. An island, or an accumulation of land, formed in...

Section 1018. - 1018. If a stream, navigable or not navigable, in forming...

Section [1019.]. - [1019.] Section Ten Hundred and Nineteen. A tenant may remove...

CHAPTER 2 - Accession to Personal Property

Section 1025. - 1025. When things belonging to different owners have been united...

Section 1026. - 1026. That part is to be deemed the principal to...

Section 1027. - 1027. If neither part can be considered the principal, within...

Section 1028. - 1028. If one makes a thing from materials belonging to...

Section 1029. - 1029. Where one has made use of materials which in...

Section 1030. - 1030. When a thing has been formed by the admixture...

Section 1031. - 1031. The foregoing sections of this Article are not applicable...

Section 1032. - 1032. In all cases where one whose material has been...

Section 1033. - 1033. One who wrongfully employs materials belonging to another is...

TITLE 4 - TRANSFER

CHAPTER 1 - Transfers in General

ARTICLE 1 - Definition of Transfer

Section 1039. - 1039. Transfer is an act of the parties, or of...

Section 1040. - 1040. A voluntary transfer is an executed contract, subject to...

ARTICLE 2 - What May Be Transferred

Section 1044. - 1044. Property of any kind may be transferred, except as...

Section 1045. - 1045. A mere possibility, not coupled with an interest, cannot...

Section 1046. - 1046. A right of reëntry, or of repossession for breach...

Section 1047. - 1047. Any person claiming title to real property in the...

ARTICLE 3 - Mode of Transfer

Section 1052. - 1052. A transfer may be made without writing, in every...

Section [1053.]. - [1053.] Section Ten Hundred and Fifty-three. A transfer in writing...

Section 1054. - 1054. A grant takes effect, so as to vest the...

Section 1055. - 1055. A grant duly executed is presumed to have been...

Section 1056. - 1056. A grant cannot be delivered to the grantee conditionally....

Section 1057. - 1057. A grant may be deposited by the grantor with...

Section 1057.3. - 1057.3. (a) It shall be the obligation of a buyer...

Section 1057.5. - 1057.5. Except for the normal compensation of his own employees,...

Section 1057.6. - 1057.6. In an escrow transaction for the purchase or simultaneous...

Section 1057.7. - 1057.7. All written escrow instructions executed by a buyer or...

Section 1058. - 1058. Redelivering a grant of real property to the grantor,...

Section 1058.5. - 1058.5. (a) A notice of nonacceptance of a recorded deed...

Section 1059. - 1059. Though a grant be not actually delivered into the...

ARTICLE 4 - Interpretation of Grants

Section 1066. - 1066. Grants are to be interpreted in like manner with...

Section 1067. - 1067. A clear and distinct limitation in a grant is...

Section 1068. - 1068. If the operative words of a grant are doubtful,...

Section 1069. - 1069. A grant is to be interpreted in favor of...

Section 1070. - 1070. If several parts of a grant are absolutely irreconcilable,...

Section 1072. - 1072. Words of inheritance or succession are not requisite to...

ARTICLE 5 - Effect of Transfer

Section 1084. - 1084. The transfer of a thing transfers also all its...

Section 1085. - 1085. A present interest, and the benefit of a condition...

ARTICLE 6 - Agency Listings for the Transfer of Certain Property

Section 1086. - 1086. (a) For purposes of this article, the definitions contained...

Section 1087. - 1087. A multiple listing service (MLS) is a facility of...

Section 1088. - 1088. (a) A listing may not be placed in a...

Section 1089. - 1089. The provisions of subdivision (d) of Section 1102.1 shall...

Section 1089.5. - 1089.5. Subject to the limitations, conditions, and requirements of Chapter...

ARTICLE 7 - Unlawful Influence of Appraisers

Section 1090.5. - 1090.5. (a) No person with an interest in a real...

CHAPTER 2 - Transfer of Real Property

ARTICLE 1 - Mode of Transfer

Section 1091. - 1091. An estate in real property, other than an estate...

Section 1092. - 1092. A grant of an estate in real property may...

Section 1093. - 1093. Absent the express written statement of the grantor contained...

Section 1095. - 1095. When an attorney in fact executes an instrument transferring...

Section 1096. - 1096. Any person in whom the title of real estate...

Section 1097. - 1097. No vendor or lessor of a single family residential...

Section 1098. - 1098. (a) A “transfer fee” is any fee payment requirement...

Section 1098.5. - 1098.5. (a) For transfer fees, as defined in Section 1098,...

Section 1098.6. - 1098.6. (a) (1) On or after January 1, 2019, a...

Section 1099. - 1099. (a) As soon as practical before transfer of title...

ARTICLE 1.4 - Installation of Water Use Efficiency Improvements

Section 1101.1. - 1101.1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:...

Section 1101.2. - 1101.2. Except as provided in Section 1101.7, this article shall...

Section 1101.3. - 1101.3. For the purposes of this article: (a) “Commercial real...

Section 1101.4. - 1101.4. (a) For all building alterations or improvements to single-family...

Section 1101.5. - 1101.5. (a) On or before January 1, 2019, all noncompliant...

Section 1101.6. - 1101.6. The duty of an owner or building permit applicant...

Section 1101.7. - 1101.7. This article shall not apply to any of the...

Section 1101.8. - 1101.8. A city, county, or city and county, or a...

Section 1101.9. - 1101.9. Any city, county, or city and county that has...

ARTICLE 1.5 - Disclosures Upon Transfer of Residential Property

Section 1102. - 1102. (a) Except as provided in Section 1102.2, this article...

Section 1102.1. - 1102.1. (a) In enacting Chapter 817 of the Statutes of...

Section 1102.2. - 1102.2. This article does not apply to the following: (a)...

Section 1102.3. - 1102.3. The seller of any single-family real property subject to...

Section 1102.3a. - 1102.3a. (a) The transferor of any manufactured home or mobilehome...

Section 1102.4. - 1102.4. (a) Neither the seller nor any seller’s agent or...

Section 1102.5. - 1102.5. (a) If information disclosed in accordance with this article...

Section 1102.6. - 1102.6. (a) The disclosures required by this article pertaining to...

Section 1102.6a. - 1102.6a. (a) On and after July 1, 1990, any city...

Section 1102.6b. - 1102.6b. (a) This section applies to all sales of real...

Section 1102.6c. - 1102.6c. (a) In addition to any other disclosure required pursuant...

Section 1102.6d. - 1102.6d. Except for manufactured homes and mobilehomes located in a...

Section 1102.6e. - 1102.6e. If a property being transferred on or after January...

Section 1102.6f. - 1102.6f. (a) On or after January 1, 2021, in addition...

Section 1102.6g. - 1102.6g. (a) After July 1, 2022, every contract for the...

Section 1102.7. - 1102.7. Each disclosure required by this article and each act...

Section 1102.8. - 1102.8. The specification of items for disclosure in this article...

Section 1102.9. - 1102.9. Any disclosure made pursuant to this article may be...

Section 1102.10. - 1102.10. Delivery of disclosures required by this article shall be...

Section 1102.11. - 1102.11. Any person or entity, other than a real estate...

Section 1102.12. - 1102.12. (a) If more than one licensed real estate broker...

Section 1102.13. - 1102.13. No transfer subject to this article shall be invalidated...

Section 1102.15. - 1102.15. The seller of residential real property subject to this...

Section 1102.155. - 1102.155. (a) (1) The seller of single-family residential real property...

Section 1102.16. - 1102.16. The disclosure of the existence of any window security...

Section 1102.17. - 1102.17. The seller of residential real property subject to this...

Section 1102.18. - 1102.18. The provisions of subdivision (d) of Section 1102.1 shall...

Section 1102.19. - 1102.19. (a) On and after July 1, 2021, a seller...

ARTICLE 1.7 - Disclosure of Natural and Environmental Hazards, Right-to-Farm, and Other Disclosures Upon Transfer of Residential Property

Section 1103. - 1103. (a) For purpose of this article, the definitions in...

Section 1103.1. - 1103.1. (a) This article does not apply to the following...

Section 1103.2. - 1103.2. (a) The disclosures required by this article are set...

Section 1103.3. - 1103.3. (a) The seller of any real property subject to...

Section 1103.4. - 1103.4. (a) Neither the seller nor any seller’s agent or...

Section 1103.5. - 1103.5. (a) After a seller and his or her agent...

Section 1103.7. - 1103.7. Each disclosure required by this article and each act...

Section 1103.8. - 1103.8. (a) The specification of items for disclosure in this...

Section 1103.9. - 1103.9. Any disclosure made pursuant to this article may be...

Section 1103.10. - 1103.10. Delivery of disclosures required by this article shall be...

Section 1103.11. - 1103.11. Any person or entity, other than a real estate...

Section 1103.12. - 1103.12. (a) If more than one licensed real estate broker...

Section 1103.13. - 1103.13. No transfer subject to this article shall be invalidated...

Section 1103.15. - 1103.15. The provisions of subdivision (d) of Section 1102.1 shall...

ARTICLE 1.8 - Buyer s Choice Act

Section 1103.20. - 1103.20. This article shall be known, and may be cited,...

Section 1103.21. - 1103.21. (a) The Legislature finds and declares: (1) Sales of...

Section 1103.22. - 1103.22. (a) A seller of residential real property improved by...

ARTICLE 2 - Effect of Transfer

Section 1104. - 1104. A transfer of real property passes all easements attached...

Section 1105. - 1105. A fee simple title is presumed to be intended...

Section 1106. - 1106. Where a person purports by proper instrument to grant...

Section 1107. - 1107. Every grant of an estate in real property is...

Section 1108. - 1108. A grant made by the owner of an estate...

Section 1109. - 1109. Where a grant is made upon condition subsequent, and...

Section [1110.]. - [1110.] Section Eleven Hundred and Ten. An instrument purporting to...

Section 1111. - 1111. Grants of rents or of reversions or of remainders...

Section [1112.]. - [1112.] Section Eleven Hundred and Twelve. A transfer of land,...

Section 1113. - 1113. From the use of the word “grant” in any...

Section [1114.]. - [1114.] Section Eleven Hundred and Fourteen. The term “incumbrances” includes...

Section 1115. - 1115. Lineal and collateral warrantees, with all their incidents, are...

Section 1133. - 1133. (a) If a lot, parcel, or unit of a...

Section 1134. - 1134. (a) As soon as practicable before transfer of title...

CHAPTER 3 - Transfer of Personal Property

ARTICLE 1 - Mode of Transfer

Section 1135. - 1135. An interest in a ship can be transferred only...

Section 1140. - 1140. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) The term...

ARTICLE 3 - Gifts

Section 1146. - 1146. A gift is a transfer of personal property, made...

Section 1147. - 1147. A verbal gift is not valid, unless the means...

Section 1148. - 1148. A gift, other than a gift in view of...

CHAPTER 4 - Recording Transfers

ARTICLE 2 - Mode of Recording

Section 1169. - 1169. Instruments entitled to be recorded must be recorded by...

Section [1170.]. - [1170.] Section Eleven Hundred and Seventy. An instrument is deemed...

Section 1171. - 1171. Grants, absolute in terms, are to be recorded in...

Section 1172. - 1172. The duties of county recorders, in respect to recording...

Section 1173. - 1173. The mode of recording transfers of ships registered under...

ARTICLE 3 - Proof and Acknowledgment of Instruments

Section 1180. - 1180. The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be...

Section 1181. - 1181. The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be...

Section 1182. - 1182. The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be...

Section 1183. - 1183. The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be...

Section 1183.5. - 1183.5. Any officer on active duty or performing inactive-duty training...

Section 1184. - 1184. When any of the officers mentioned in Sections 1180,...

Section 1185. - 1185. (a) The acknowledgment of an instrument shall not be...

Section 1188. - 1188. An officer taking the acknowledgment of an instrument shall...

Section 1189. - 1189. (a) (1) Any certificate of acknowledgment taken within this...

Section 1190. - 1190. The certificate of acknowledgment of an instrument executed on...

Section 1193. - 1193. Officers taking and certifying acknowledgments or proof of instruments...

Section 1195. - 1195. (a) Proof of the execution of an instrument, when...

Section 1196. - 1196. A witness shall be proved to be a subscribing...

Section 1197. - 1197. The subscribing witness must prove that the person whose...

Section 1198. - 1198. The execution of an instrument may be established by...

Section [1199.]. - [1199.] Section Eleven Hundred and Ninety-nine. The evidence taken under...

Section 1200. - 1200. An officer taking proof of the execution of any...

Section 1201. - 1201. Officers authorized to take the proof of instruments are...

Section 1202. - 1202. When the acknowledgment or proof of the execution of...

Section 1203. - 1203. Any person interested under an instrument entitled to be...

Section 1204. - 1204. A certified copy of the judgment in a proceeding...

Section 1205. - 1205. The legality of the execution, acknowledgment, proof, form, or...

Section 1206. - 1206. All conveyances of real property made before this Code...

Section 1207. - 1207. Any instrument affecting the title to real property, one...

ARTICLE 4 - Effect of Recording, or the Want Thereof

Section 1213. - 1213. Every conveyance of real property or an estate for...

Section 1214. - 1214. Every conveyance of real property or an estate for...

Section 1215. - 1215. The term “conveyance,” as used in Sections 1213 and...

Section 1216. - 1216. No power contained in an instrument to convey or...

Section 1217. - 1217. An unrecorded instrument is valid as between the parties...

Section 1218. - 1218. A certified copy of an instrument affecting the title...

Section 1219. - 1219. Oil and gas leases may be acknowledged or proved,...

Section 1220. - 1220. Contracts for the purchase or sale of standing timber...

CHAPTER 5 - Unlawful Transfers

Section 1227. - 1227. Every instrument, other than a will, affecting an estate...

Section 1228. - 1228. No instrument is to be avoided under the last...

Section 1229. - 1229. Where a power to revoke or modify an instrument...

Section 1230. - 1230. Where a person having a power of revocation, within...

Section 1231. - 1231. Other provisions concerning unlawful transfers are contained in Part...

TITLE 8 - WATER RIGHTS

Section 1414. - 1414. As between appropriators, the one first in time is...

Section 1415. - 1415. A person desiring to appropriate water must post a...

Section 1416. - 1416. Within sixty days after the notice is posted, the...

Section 1417. - 1417. By “completion” is meant conducting the waters to the...

Section 1418. - 1418. By a compliance with the above rules the claimant’s...

Section 1419. - 1419. A failure to comply with such rules deprives the...

Section 1420. - 1420. Persons who have heretofore claimed the right to water,...

Section 1421. - 1421. The Recorder of each county must keep a book,...

Section 1422. - 1422. If the place of intended diversion or any part...