Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of, such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3483
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 153 Cal. App. 3d 605 - Leslie Salt Co. v. San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission (1984)
Most recently applied in Schaeffer v. Gregory Village Partners, L.P. (May 2015)
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.