No future interest can be defeated or barred by any alienation or other act of the owner of the intermediate or precedent interest, nor by any destruction of such precedent interest by forfeiture, surrender, merger, or otherwise, except as provided by the next section, or where a forfeiture is imposed by statute as a penalty for the violation thereof.
Cal. Civ. Code § 741
Termination of Ownership
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Estate of Lefranc (1952)
Most recently applied in 218 Cal. App. 4th 1211 - King v. Wu (August 2013)
Enacted 1872.
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