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2024 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
DIVISION 2 - PROPERTY
PART 1 - PROPERTY IN GENERAL
TITLE 2 - OWNERSHIP
CHAPTER 2 - Modifications of Ownership
ARTICLE 2 - Conditions of Ownership
Section 709.
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CA Civ Code § 709 (2024)
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709. If a condition precedent requires the performance of an act wrong of itself, the instrument containing it is so far void, and the right cannot exist. If it requires the performance of an act not wrong of itself, but otherwise unlawful, the instrument takes effect and the condition is void.
(Enacted 1872.)
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