California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 2 — Property, Part 1 — Property in General, Title 2 — Ownership, Chapter 4 — Termination of Ownership, Section 741
No future interest can be defeated or barred by any alienation or other act of the owner of the intermediate or precedent interest, nor by any destruction of such precedent interest by forfeiture, surrender, merger, or otherwise, except as provided by the next section, or where a forfeiture is imposed by statute as a penalty for the violation thereof.
Notes
Protects a future interest from being defeated or barred by the owner of the intermediate or preceding interest, whether through alienation, another act, forfeiture, surrender or merger. Carves out the situation covered by the next section and any forfeiture a statute imposes as a penalty for violating it.
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