California Code
CHAPTER 1 - Actions for the Foreclosure of Mortgages
Section 729.020.

729.020. Property sold subject to the right of redemption may be redeemed only by the judgment debtor or the judgment debtor’s successor in interest. For the purpose of this article, the purchaser of the property at the foreclosure sale is not a successor in interest.

(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 497, Sec. 49. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 185 of Ch. 497.)