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

§ 1056

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

A grant cannot be delivered to the grantee conditionally. Delivery to him, or to his agent as such, is necessarily absolute, and the instrument takes effect thereupon, discharged of any condition on which the delivery was made.

(Enacted 1872.)

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