DIVISION 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS 3274-9566›PART 3. NUISANCE 3479-3508.2›TITLE 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 3479-3486.5

§ 3483

California Civil Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of, such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it.

(Enacted 1872.)

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