Where a person purports by proper instrument to grant real property in fee simple, and subsequently acquires any title, or claim of title thereto, the same passes by operation of law to the grantee, or his successors.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1106
Effect of Transfer
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 86 Cal. App. 4th 1109 - Leko v. Cornerstone Bldg. Inspection Serv. (2001)
Most recently applied in 230 Cal. App. 4th 1289 - RNT Holdings v. United General Title Ins. Co. CA2/4 (October 2014)
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.