{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-818","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 818","heading":"","body":"The owner of a life estate may use the land in the same manner as the owner of a fee simple, except that he must do no act to the injury of the inheritance.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654. - 1422.]","PART 2. REAL OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY [[755.] - 945.5.]","TITLE 3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF OWNERS [818. - 855.]","CHAPTER 1. Rights of Owners [818. - 835.]","ARTICLE 1. Incidents of Ownership [818. - 827.]"],"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":"b53be89645d7d73bb3d9dd16e36a64f947bd945fe9c6bd171ae06aae7cd22d92","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-817.4","next":"us-ca/civ-819"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}