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Cal. Civ. Code § 685

Interests in Property

Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Slosberg v. Horn (1951)

Most recently applied in First Community Bank v. Gaughan (March 2017)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

An interest in common is one owned by several persons, not in joint ownership or partnership.

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