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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 4. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY 1000-1422›TITLE 4. TRANSFER 1039-1231›CHAPTER 1. Transfers in General 1039-1090.5›ARTICLE 3. Mode of Transfer 1052-1059

§ [1053.]

California Civil Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

Section Ten Hundred and Fifty-three. A transfer in writing is called a grant, or conveyance, or bill of sale. The term “grant,” in this and the next two Articles, includes all these instruments, unless it is specially applied to real property.

(Amended by Code Amendments 1873-74, Ch. 612.)

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