Title CIV — California Civ. Code

In respect to the time of enjoyment, an interest in property is either:

A present interest entitles the owner to the immediate possession of the property. (Enacted 1872.)

A future interest entitles the owner to the possession of the property only at a future period. (Enacted 1872.)

A perpetual interest has a duration equal to that of the property. (Enacted 1872.)

A limited interest has a duration less than that of the property. (Enacted 1872.)

Two or more future interests may be created to take effect in the alternative, so that if the first in order fails to vest, the next in succession shall be substituted for it, and take effect accordingly. (Enacted 1872.)

A future interest is not void merely because of the improbability of the contingency on which it is limited to take effect. (Enacted 1872.)

When a future interest is limited to successors, heirs, issue, or children, posthumous children are entitled to take in the same manner as if living at the death of their parent. (Enacted 1872.)

Future interests pass by succession, will, and transfer, in the same manner as present interests. (Enacted 1872.)

To do whatever else is necessary, or proper and usual, in the ordinary course of business, for effecting these purposes. (Enacted 1872.)

A mere possibility, such as the expectancy of an heir apparent, is not to be deemed an interest of any kind. (Enacted 1872.)

In respect to real or immovable property, the interests mentioned in this Chapter are denominated estates, and are specially named and classified in Part II of this Division. (Enacted 1872.)

The names and classification of interests in real property have only such application to interests in personal property as is in this Division of the Code expressly provided. (Enacted 1872.)

No future interest in property is recognized by the law, except such as is defined in this Division of the Code. (Enacted 1872.)

The time when the enjoyment of property is to begin or end may be determined by computation, or be made to depend on events. In the latter case, the enjoyment is said to be upon condition. (Enacted 1872.)

Conditions are precedent or subsequent. The former fix the beginning, the latter the ending, of the right. (Enacted 1872.)

If a condition precedent requires the performance of an act wrong of itself, the instrument containing it is so far void, and the right cannot exist. If it requires the performance of an act not wrong of itself, but otherwise unlawful, the instrument takes effect and the conditio…

Conditions restraining alienation, when repugnant to the interest created, are void. (Enacted 1872.)

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 711 and 1916.5, a state or local public entity directly or indirectly providing housing purchase or rehabilitation loans shall have the authority to deny assumptions, or require the denial of assumptions, by a subsequent ineligible p…

(a) Every provision contained in or otherwise affecting a grant of a fee interest in, or purchase money security instrument upon, real property in this state heretofore or hereafter made, which purports to prohibit or restrict the right of the property owner or his or her agent t…

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of any ordinance, an owner of real property or his or her agent may display or have displayed on the owner’s real property, and on real property owned by others with their consent, signs which are reasonably located, in plain view of the public, …

(a) Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of, or any interest in, real property, and any provision of a governing document, as defined in Section 4150 or 6552, that effectiv…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 714, an association may impose reasonable provisions that: (1) Restrict the installation of solar energy systems in common areas to those systems approved by the association. (2) Require the owner of a separate interest to obtain the approval of the as…

(a) Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that either effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction or use of an accessor…

The covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other management documents shall not prohibit the sale, lease, rent, or use of real property on the basis that the structure intended for occupancy on the real property is constructed in an offsite facility or factory, and subsequent…

(a) Recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or private limits on the use of private or publicly owned land contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, reciprocal easement agreement, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real propert…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a developer shall not sell a unit constructed pursuant to a local inclusionary zoning ordinance that is intended for owner-occupancy by persons or families of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income to a purchaser that is n…

A lease to commence at a time certain or upon the happening of a future event becomes invalid if its term does not actually commence in possession within 30 years after its execution.

No lease or grant of land for agricultural or horticultural purposes for a longer period than 51 years, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.

No lease or grant of any town or city lot, which reserves any rent or service of any kind, and which provides for a leasing or granting period in excess of 99 years, shall be valid. The property owned by, or that held by, or under the management and control of, any municipality, …

A lease of land for the purpose of effecting the production of minerals, oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substances from other lands may be made for a period certain or determinable by any future event prescribed by the parties but no such lease shall be enforceable after 99 years…

Notwithstanding the 55-year limitation imposed by Section 718, property owned by, or held by, or under the management and control of, any city, or any department or board thereof, may be leased for a period which exceeds 55 years but does not exceed 99 years, if all of the follow…

Dispositions of the income of property to accrue and to be received at any time subsequent to the execution of the instrument creating such disposition are governed by the rules relating to future interests.

All directions for the accumulation of the income of property, except such as are allowed by this Title, are void. (Enacted 1872.)

(a) An accumulation of the income of property may be directed by any will, trust or transfer in writing sufficient to pass the property or create the trust out of which the fund is to arise, for the benefit of one or more persons, objects or purposes, but may not extend beyond th…

If the direction for an accumulation of the income of property is for a longer term than is limited in the last section, the direction only, whether separable or not from the other provisions of the instrument, is void as respects the time beyond the limit prescribed in said last…

When one or more persons for whose benefit an accumulation of income has been directed is or are destitute of other sufficient means of support or education, the proper court, upon application, may direct a suitable sum to be applied thereto out of the fund directed to be accumul…