California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 3 — Obligations, Part 4 — Obligations Arising from Particular Transactions, Title 14 — Lien, Chapter 2 — Mortgage, Article 2 — Mortgage of Real Property, Section 2950
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.
Notes
Requires a duly executed and acknowledged defeasance instrument to be recorded in the county where the property is located when an apparently absolute real-property grant is actually conditional. Without recording, the defeasance does not affect persons other than the grantee, the grantee’s heirs or devisees, or persons with actual notice.
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