§ 2950

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

When a grant of real property purports to be an absolute conveyance, but is intended to be defeasible on the performance of certain conditions, such grant is not defeated or affected as against any person other than the grantee or his or her heirs or devisees, or persons having actual notice, unless an instrument of defeasance, duly executed and acknowledged, shall have been recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where the property is situated.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 76, Sec. 19. (AB 383) Effective January 1, 2014.)

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