DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 3. PERSONAL OR MOVABLE PROPERTY 946-998›TITLE 2. PARTICULAR KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY [[953.] - 998.]›CHAPTER 4. Other Kinds of Personal Property 994-998

§ 994

California Civil Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Instruments essential to the title of real property, and which are not kept in a public office as a record, pursuant to law, belong to the person in whom, for the time being, such title may be vested, and pass with the title.

(Enacted 1872.)

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