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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 2. REAL OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY [[755.] - 945.5.]›TITLE 5. MARKETABLE RECORD TITLE 880.020-887.090›CHAPTER 5. Powers of Termination 885.010-885.070

§ 885.020

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

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.

(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1268, Sec. 1.)

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