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Civil Code § 885.020

CHAPTER 5. Powers of Termination

Current as of September 28, 2026Civ. Code, § 885.020Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1268, Sec. 1.

Fees simple determinable and possibilities of reverter are abolished. Every estate that would be at common law a fee simple determinable is deemed to be a fee simple subject to a restriction in the form of a condition subsequent. Every interest that would be at common law a possibility of reverter is deemed to be and is enforceable as a power of termination.