No lease or grant of land for agricultural or horticultural purposes for a longer period than 51 years, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Cal. Civ. Code § 717
Duration of Leases
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 113 Cal. App. 2d 486 - Coruccini v. Lambert (1952)
Most recently applied in John Gansen and Elaine Bries, as Trustees of the Frances A. Gansen Declaration of Trust v. James B. Gansen (January 2016)
Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1906.
How often courts cite this section
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.