Pen. Code, § 534 · Chapter 8. False Personation and Cheats
Pen. Code, § 534
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Every person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, who falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or mortgage any real estate, to the validity of which sale or mortgage the assent or concurrence of his or her spouse is necessary, and under such representations willfully conveys or mortgages the same, is guilty of a felony.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 73. (SB 1005) Effective January 1, 2017.
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