General Provisions
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 61 Cal. 4th 871 - Radin v. Jewish National Fund (2015)
Most recently applied in Blech v. Blech (August 2018)
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 138, Sec. 11
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.
(a) The intention of the transferor as expressed in the instrument controls the legal effect of the dispositions made in the instrument.
(b) The rules of construction in this part apply where the intention of the transferor is not indicated by the instrument.
(c) Nothing in this section limits the use of extrinsic evidence, to the extent otherwise authorized by law, to determine the intention of the transferor.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.