If a river or stream, navigable or not navigable, carries away, by sudden violence a considerable and distinguishable part of a bank, and bears it to the opposite bank, or to another part of the same bank, the owner of the part carried away may reclaim it within a year after the owner of the land to which it has been united takes possession thereof.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1015
Accession to Real Property [1013. - [1019.]]
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 11 Cal. 4th 50 - State of California Ex Rel. State Lands Commission v. Superior Court (1995)
Most recently applied in 11 Cal. 4th 50 - State of California Ex Rel. State Lands Commission v. Superior Court (August 1995)
Enacted 1872.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.