A present interest entitles the owner to the immediate possession of the property.
Cal. Civ. Code § 689
Interests in Property
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 218 Cal. App. 3d 999 - Industrial Indemnity Co. v. City & County of San Francisco (1990)
Most recently applied in 142 Cal. App. 4th 480 - Reilly v. City and County of San Francisco (August 2006)
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.