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California Civil Code

§ 1471

CIV § 1471 Effective Jan 1, 2003Div. 3 · Title 3 · Part 1
(a)Notwithstanding Section 1468 or any other provision of law, a covenant made by an owner of land or by the grantee of land to do or refrain from doing some act on his or her own land, which doing or refraining is expressed to be for the benefit of the covenantee, regardless of whether or not it is for the benefit of land owned by the covenantee, shall run with the land owned by or granted to the covenantor if all the following requirements are met:
(1)The land of the covenantor that is to be affected by the covenant is particularly described in the instrument containing the covenant.
(2)The successive owners of the land are expressed to be bound thereby for the benefit of the covenantee in the instrument containing the covenant.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 592, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.

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