{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-1025","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 1025","heading":"","body":"When things belonging to different owners have been united so as to form a single thing, and cannot be separated without injury, the whole belongs to the owner of the thing which forms the principal part; who must, however, reimburse the value of the residue to the other owner, or surrender the whole to him.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654. - 1422.]","PART 4. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY [1000. - 1422.]","TITLE 3. ACCESSION [1013. - 1033.]","CHAPTER 2. Accession to Personal Property [1025. - 1033.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"c3e647489f7cb6b7eeaf786c6af580336c8870d711e25e801af0e8fb80ce2a3e","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-1019","next":"us-ca/civ-1026"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}