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Cal. Civ. Code § 699

Interests in Property

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Estate of J. S. Ferry v. Lucas (1961)

Most recently applied in Estate of J. S. Ferry v. Lucas (May 1961)

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.

Future interests pass by succession, will, and transfer, in the same manner as present interests.

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