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2011 California Code
Civil Code
DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654 - 1422]
CHAPTER 2. Obligations of Owners
Section 841


CA Civ Code § 841 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Coterminous owners are mutually bound equally to maintain:

1. The boundaries and monuments between them;

2. The fences between them, unless one of them chooses to let his land lie without fencing; in which case, if he afterwards incloses it, he must refund to the other a just proportion of the value, at that time, of any division fence made by the latter.

(Enacted 1872.)

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