California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2586

Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom

February 21, 2014

An act to amend Section 762 of the Civil Code, relating to property.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2586, as introduced, Bloom. Fee estates.

Existing law provides that an estate of inheritance is a fee, and a fee estate, when not defeasible or conditional, is a fee simple or an absolute fee.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 762 of the Civil Code is amended to read:

begin delete

[762.]  

 Section Seven Hundred and Sixty-two. Every

end delete

begin insert

begin insert 762. end insert   

end insert

begin insert An end insert estate of inheritance is a fee, and begin delete every such end delete begin insert a fee end insert
estate, when not defeasible or conditional, is a fee simple or an
absolute fee.