Legal Opinion
Lyon v. Western Title Insurance
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 21, 1986No. A026746PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ELKINGTON, J.
Many years ago the State of California granted title to a patent applicant of about 500 acres of land, between the high water mark and low water mark at the southern end of Clear Lake in Lake County. At the time, as it does now, Civil Code section 830 provided that such a grantee “takes to the edge of the lake ... at low water mark.” And it was judicially determined law that the land between the high and low water mark of the lake was “irrevocably conveyed into absolute private ownership” (City of Long Beach v. Mansell (1970) 3 Cal.3d 462, 482 [91 Cal.Rptr. 23, 476 P.2d…
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- City of Long Beach v. MansellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1970
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3Cited by3 opinions
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