{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-534","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 534","heading":"","body":"Every person who is married or in a registered domestic partnership, who falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or mortgage any real estate, to the validity of which sale or mortgage the assent or concurrence of his or her spouse is necessary, and under such representations willfully conveys or mortgages the same, is guilty of a felony.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 13. OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY [450. - 593g.]","CHAPTER 8. False Personation and Cheats [528. - 539.]"],"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":"af8a523c29ae0954a4ba10f1a09eb78ae449033809a1b3f7eee44dbeaf14a3a7","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-533","next":"us-ca/pen-535"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}