California Civil Code ARTICLE 3 - Mode of Transfer

• Section 1052.
  A transfer may be made without writing, in every case in which a writing is not expressly required by statute.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section [1053.].
   Section Ten Hundred and Fifty-three. A transfer in writing is called a grant, or conveyance, or bill of sale. The term “grant,” in this and...
• Section 1054.
  A grant takes effect, so as to vest the interest intended to be transferred, only upon its delivery by the grantor.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1055.
  A grant duly executed is presumed to have been delivered at its date.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1056.
  A grant cannot be delivered to the grantee conditionally. Delivery to him, or to his agent as such, is necessarily absolute, and the instrument takes...
• Section 1057.
  A grant may be deposited by the grantor with a third person, to be delivered on performance of a condition, and, on delivery by the...
• Section 1057.3.
  (a) It shall be the obligation of a buyer and seller who enter into a contract to purchase and sell real property to ensure that all...
• Section 1057.5.
  Except for the normal compensation of his own employees, no person acting as an escrow agent whether required to be licensed as such or not,...
• Section 1057.6.
  In an escrow transaction for the purchase or simultaneous exchange of real property, where a policy of title insurance will not be issued to the...
• Section 1057.7.
  All written escrow instructions executed by a buyer or seller, whether prepared by a person subject to Division 6 (commencing with Section 17000) of the...
• Section 1058.
  Redelivering a grant of real property to the grantor, or canceling it, does not operate to retransfer the title.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1058.5.
  (a) A notice of nonacceptance of a recorded deed executed by a holder of a security interest, which notice identifies the security interest, contains a legal...
• Section 1059.
  Though a grant be not actually delivered into the possession of the grantee, it is yet to be deemed constructively delivered in the following cases:1. Where...

Last modified: October 22, 2018