ARTICLE 1. Mode of Transfer

Article 1 enacted 1872.

§§ 1091–1099 · 10 sections

• § 1091 An estate in real property, other than an estate at will or for a term not exceeding one year, can be transferred only by operation of law, or by an instrument…
• § 1092 A grant of an estate in real property may be made in substance as follows: “I, AB, grant to CD all that real property situated in (insert name of county)…
• § 1093 Absent the express written statement of the grantor contained therein, the consolidation of separate and distinct legal descriptions of real property contained…
• § 1095 When an attorney in fact executes an instrument transferring an estate in real property, he must subscribe the name of his principal to it, and his own name as…
• § 1096 Any person in whom the title of real estate is vested, who shall afterwards, from any cause, have his or her name changed, must, in any conveyance of said real…
• § 1097 No vendor or lessor of a single family residential property shall contract for or exact any fee in excess of ten dollars ($10) for the act of signing and…
• § 1098 (a) A “transfer fee” is any fee payment requirement imposed within a covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument,…
• § 1098.5 (a) For transfer fees, as defined in Section 1098, imposed prior to January 1, 2008, the receiver of the fee, as a condition of payment of the fee on or after…
• § 1098.6 (a) (1) On or after January 1, 2019, a transfer fee shall not be created. (2) This subdivision does not apply to excepted transfer fee covenants as defined by…
• § 1099 (a) As soon as practical before transfer of title of any real property or the execution of a real property sales contract as defined in Section 2985, the…