No contract or other arrangement made after the effective date of this section between any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of renting safe-deposit boxes and the renter or renters of a safe-deposit box, shall create a joint tenancy in or otherwise establish ownership in any of the contents of such safe-deposit box. Any such contract or other arrangement purporting so to do shall be to such extent void and of no effect.
Cal. Civ. Code § 683.1
Interests in Property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Cooke v. Tsipouroglou (1963)
Most recently applied in Cooke v. Tsipouroglou (May 1963)
Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1597.
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