A grant cannot be delivered to the grantee conditionally. Delivery to him, or to his agent as such, is necessarily absolute, and the instrument takes effect thereupon, discharged of any condition on which the delivery was made.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1056
Mode of Transfer
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case Hotaling v. Hotaling (1924)
Most recently applied in 13 Cal. App. 4th 611 - Casey v. Gray (February 1993)
Enacted 1872.
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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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