Grants are to be interpreted in like manner with contracts in general, except so far as is otherwise provided in this Article.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1066
Interpretation of Grants
Applied in 35 court decisions — leading case Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968)
Most recently applied in Hill v. San Jose Family Housing Partners, LLC (August 2011)
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.