California Code
ARTICLE 2 - Effect of Merger
Section 12552.

12552. Any bequest, devise, gift, grant, or promise contained in a will or other instrument of donation, subscription, or conveyance, which is made to a constituent corporation and which takes effect or remains payable after the merger, inures to the surviving party to the merger.

(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 437, Sec. 25.6. Effective January 1, 2000.)