{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-994","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 994","heading":"","body":"Instruments essential to the title of real property, and which are not kept in a public office as a record, pursuant to law, belong to the person in whom, for the time being, such title may be vested, and pass with the title.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 2. PROPERTY [654. - 1422.]","PART 3. PERSONAL OR MOVABLE PROPERTY [946. - 998.]","TITLE 2. PARTICULAR KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY [[953.] - 998.]","CHAPTER 4. Other Kinds of Personal Property [994. - 998.]"],"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":"d3977943123478b77c2451e62834e3bee85da84e7a7e9565fe37a162a5eb2f13","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-989","next":"us-ca/civ-996"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}