A mere possibility, not coupled with an interest, cannot be transferred.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1045
What May Be Transferred
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Critz v. Farmers Insurance Group (1964)
Most recently applied in Brandt v. Fleet Capital Corp. (In Re TMCI Electronics) (April 1999)
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.