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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

§ 1028

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

If one makes a thing from materials belonging to another, the latter may claim the thing on reimbursing the value of the workmanship, unless the value of the workmanship exceeds the value of the materials, in which case the thing belongs to the maker, on reimbursing the value of the materials.

(Enacted 1872.)

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