Civ. Code, § 885.020 · Chapter 5. Powers of Termination
Civ. Code, § 885.020
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Fees simple determinable and possibilities of reverter are abolished. Every estate that would be at common law a fee simple determinable is deemed to be a fee simple subject to a restriction in the form of a condition subsequent. Every interest that would be at common law a possibility of reverter is deemed to be and is enforceable as a power of termination.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1268, Sec. 1.
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- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV§ionNum=885.020.
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