A grant duly executed is presumed to have been delivered at its date.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1055
Mode of Transfer
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case 214 Cal. App. 2d 826 - T W M Homes, Inc. v. Atherwood Realty & Investment Co. (1963)
Most recently applied in in Re Theodore Steven Roosevelt, (June 1996)
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.