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Cal. Civ. Code § 657

NATURE OF PROPERTY

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case In Re Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas, Subsidiary, L.P. (2009)

Most recently applied in 208 Cal. App. 4th 584 - Vieira Enterprises, Inc. v. City of East Palo Alto (August 2012)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

19281940196019802000201220
citing decisions per year

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.

Property is either:

l. Real or immovable; or,

2. Personal or movable.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.