California CodesCivil Code - CIVDivision 2 — PropertyPart 2 — Real or Immovable Property [755 – 945.5]Title 2 — Estates in Real PropertyChapter 1 — Estates in GeneralSection 779

When a remainder is limited to the heirs, or heirs of the body, of a person to whom a life estate in the same property is given, the persons who, on the termination of the life estate, are the successors or heirs of the body of the owner for life, are entitled to take by virtue of the remainder so limited to them, and not as mere successors of the owner for life.

Notes

Gives the persons who are the successors or heirs of the body of a life tenant, when a remainder is limited to those heirs and the life estate ends, the right to take under that remainder rather than as mere successors of the owner for life.

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