Transfer is an act of the parties, or of the law, by which the title to property is conveyed from one living person to another.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1039
Definition of Transfer
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case Scholle v. Finnell (1916)
Most recently applied in In re Domum Locis LLC (December 2014)
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.
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