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