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California Civil Code

§ 654

CIV § 654Div. 2 · Title 1 · Part 1
The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, the thing of which there may be ownership is called property.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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