A specific gift passes the property transferred subject to any mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien existing at the date of death, without right of exoneration, regardless of a general directive to pay debts contained in the instrument.
Cal. Prob. Code § 21131
Exoneration; Ademption
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 138, Sec. 31
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