The owner of land in fee has the right to the surface and to everything permanently situated beneath or above it.
Cal. Civ. Code § 829
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Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. 4th 871 - Kazi v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (2001)
Most recently applied in 105 Cal. App. 4th 858 - Sanctity of Human Life Network v. California Highway Patrol (January 2003)
Enacted 1872.
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.