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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 1. PROPERTY IN GENERAL 654-749›TITLE 2. OWNERSHIP 669-742›CHAPTER 4. Termination of Ownership 739-742

§ 739

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

A future interest, depending on the contingency of the death of any person without successors, heirs, issue, or children, is defeated by the birth of a posthumous child of such person, capable of taking by succession.

(Enacted 1872.)

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