Definitions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 4 Cal. 4th 715 - Title Insurance. Co. v. State Board of Equalization (1992)
Most recently applied in 187 Cal. App. 4th 365 - Soifer v. Chicago Title Co. (August 2010)
Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1130.
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.
“Title insurance” means insuring, guaranteeing or indemnifying owners of real or personal property or the holders of liens or encumbrances thereon or others interested therein against loss or damage suffered by reason of:
(a) Liens or encumbrances on, or defects in the title to said property;
(b) Invalidity or unenforceability of any liens or encumbrances thereon; or
(c) Incorrectness of searches relating to the title to real or personal property.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.