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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 2. REAL OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY 755.-945.5›TITLE 2. ESTATES IN REAL PROPERTY 761-817.4›CHAPTER 3. Servitudes 801-813

§ 811

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

A servitude is extinguished:

  1. By the vesting of the right to the servitude and the right to the servient tenement in the same person;

  2. By the destruction of the servient tenement;

  3. By the performance of any act upon either tenement, by the owner of the servitude, or with his assent, which is incompatible with its nature or exercise; or,

  4. When the servitude was acquired by enjoyment, by disuse thereof by the owner of the servitude for the period prescribed for acquiring title by enjoyment.

(Enacted 1872.)

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