Property is acquired by:
1. Occupancy;
2. Accession;
3. Transfer;
4. Will; or,
5. Succession.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1000
MODES IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE ACQUIRED
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 236 Cal. App. 2d 272 - Guerra v. Packard (1965)
Most recently applied in David Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (May 2023)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.