California Civil Code CHAPTER 1 - Estates in General

• Section 761.
  Estates in real property, in respect to the duration of their enjoyment are either:l. Estates of inheritance or perpetual estates;2. Estates for life;3. Estates for years; or,4. Estates at...
• Section [762.].
   Section Seven Hundred and Sixty-two. Every estate of inheritance is a fee, and every such estate, when not defeasible or conditional, is a fee simple...
• Section 763.
  Estates tail are abolished, and every estate which would be at common law adjudged to be a fee tail is a fee simple; and if...
• Section 764.
  Where a remainder in fee is limited upon any estate, which would by the common law be adjudged a fee tail, such remainder is valid...
• Section 765.
  Estates of inheritance and for life are called estates of freehold; estates for years are chattels real; and estates at will are chattel interests, but...
• Section [766.].
   Section Seven Hundred and Sixty-six. An estate during the life of a third person, whether limited to heirs or otherwise, is a freehold.(Amended by Code...
• Section 767.
  A future estate may be limited by the act of the party to commence in possession at a future day, either without the intervention of...
• Section 768.
  A reversion is the residue of an estate left by operation of law in the grantor or his successors, or in the successors of a...
• Section 769.
  When a future estate, other than a reversion, is dependent on a precedent estate, it may be called a remainder, and may be created and...
• Section 773.
  Subject to the rules of this title, and of Part 1 of this division, a freehold estate, as well as a chattel real, may be...
• Section 778.
  A remainder may be limited on a contingency which, in case it should happen, will operate to abridge or determine the precedent estate; and every...
• Section 779.
  When a remainder is limited to the heirs, or heirs of the body, of a person to whom a life estate in the same property...
• Section 780.
  When a remainder on an estate for life or for years is not limited on a contingency defeating or avoiding such precedent estate, it is...
• Section 781.
  A general or special power of appointment does not prevent the vesting of a future estate limited to take effect in case such power is...
• Section 782.
  (a) Any provision in any deed of real property in California, whether executed before or after the effective date of this section, that purports to restrict...
• Section 782.5.
  (a) Any deed or other written instrument that relates to title to real property, or any written covenant, condition, or restriction annexed or made a part...
• Section 783.
  A condominium is an estate in real property described in Section 4125 or 6542. A condominium may, with respect to the duration of its enjoyment,...
• Section 783.1.
  In a stock cooperative, as defined in Section 4190 or 6566, both the separate interest, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section...
• Section 784.
  “Restriction,” when used in a statute that incorporates this section by reference, means a limitation on, or provision affecting, the use of real property in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018