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2019 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 2 - OF CIVIL ACTIONS
TITLE 2 - OF THE TIME OF COMMENCING CIVIL ACTIONS
CHAPTER 2 - The Time of Commencing Actions for the Recovery of Real Property
Section 321.
Universal Citation: CA Civ Pro Code § 321 (2019)
321.
In every action for the recovery of real property, or the possession thereof, the person establishing a legal title to the property is presumed to have been possessed thereof within the time required by law, and the occupation of the property by any other person is deemed to have been under and in subordination to the legal title, unless it appear that the property has been held and possessed adversely to such legal title, for five years before the commencement of the action.
(Enacted 1872.)
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