No action can be brought for or in respect to real property by any person claiming under letters patent or grants from this State, unless the same might have been commenced by the people as herein specified, in case such patent had not been issued or grant made.
Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 316
The Time of Commencing Actions for the Recovery of Real Property
Enacted 1872.
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