A grant may be deposited by the grantor with a third person, to be delivered on performance of a condition, and, on delivery by the depositary, it will take effect. While in the possession of the third person, and subject to condition, it is called an escrow.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1057
Mode of Transfer
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 141 Cal. App. 3d 541 - Joffe v. United California Bank (1983)
Most recently applied in Security Service Federal Credit Union v. First American Mortgage Funding, LLC (March 2012)
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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