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Civil Code § 1227

CHAPTER 5. Unlawful Transfers

Current as of September 28, 2026Civ. Code, § 1227Official source ↗

Enacted 1872.

Every instrument, other than a will, affecting an estate in real property, including every charge upon real property, or upon its rents or profits, made with intent to defraud prior or subsequent purchasers thereof, or incumbrancers thereon, is void as against every purchaser or incumbrancer, for value, of the same property, or the rents or profits thereof.