57 Cal. App. 2d 511 - Campbell v. Woolner’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““At that time, section 3897 of the Political Code had been repealed and, while the Revenue and Taxation Act was not yet in effect, sections 3833.2 and 3836.1 had been added to the Political Code, effective as of September 19, 1939. (Stats. 1939, chap. 529.) Section 3836.1, thus added, provided that the deed from the tax collector to the state should convey a clear title free of all encumbrances except (c) Any lien for direct assessments. ’ Section 3833.2 defined a direct assessment as ‘an assessment levied by a district the bonds of which are secured by assessments levied on a particular parcel of land described in the bond. ’ The assessment under which the appellant claims was a direct assessment, as thus defined, with the result that in 1940, when the deed was issued to the state, section 3836.1 of the Political Code provided that such a deed should not operate to extinguish the lien of the street improvement bonds issued pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911. While section 3787 of the Political Code was repealed in 1939 (Stats. 1939, chap. 154), the repeal thereof did not become effective until February 1, 1941, the result being that during 1940, when the property here in question was deeded to the state, that section applied as it had been construed in the parity eases. It thus appears that the law, as it stood in 1940, was the same as it was when the parity cases were decided and those cases would seem to be controlling here, the amendment to section 3897 of the Politi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rostain v. Guggenheim