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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY 654-1422›PART 4. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY 1000-1422›TITLE 3. ACCESSION 1013-1033›CHAPTER 2. Accession to Personal Property 1025-1033

§ 1025

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

When things belonging to different owners have been united so as to form a single thing, and cannot be separated without injury, the whole belongs to the owner of the thing which forms the principal part; who must, however, reimburse the value of the residue to the other owner, or surrender the whole to him.

(Enacted 1872.)

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