SECTIONS 1300-1301 - California Statutes

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

SECTION 1300-1301

1300. For the purposes of this title, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Property," unless specifically qualified, includes all
classes of property, real, personal and mixed.
(b) "Unclaimed property," unless specifically qualified, means all
property (1) which is unclaimed, abandoned, escheated, permanently
escheated, or distributed to the state, or (2) which, under any
provision of law, will become unclaimed, abandoned, escheated,
permanently escheated, or distributed to the state, or (3) to the
possession of which the state is or will become entitled, if not
claimed by the person or persons entitled thereto within the time
allowed by law, whether or not there has been a judicial
determination that such property is unclaimed, abandoned, escheated,
permanently escheated, or distributed to the state.
(c) "Escheat," unless specifically qualified, means the vesting in
the state of title to property the whereabouts of whose owner is
unknown or whose owner is unknown or which a known owner has refused
to accept, whether by judicial determination or by operation of law,
subject to the right of claimants to appear and claim the escheated
property or any portion thereof. When used in reference to the law of
another state, "escheat" includes the transfer to the state of the
right to the custody of such property.
(d) "Permanent escheat" means the absolute vesting in the state of
title to property the whereabouts of whose owner is unknown or whose
owner is unknown or which a known owner has refused to accept,
pursuant to judicial determination, pursuant to a proceeding of
escheat as provided by Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 1410) of
this title, or pursuant to operation of law, and the barring of all
claims to the property by the former owner thereof or his successors.
(e) "Controller" means the State Controller.
(f) "Treasurer" means the State Treasurer.
(g) "Domicile," in the case of a corporation, refers to the place
where the corporation is incorporated.

1301. For the purposes of this title, unless otherwise specified,
(1) a reference to a section refers to a section of this code; (2) a
reference to an article refers to an article of the chapter of this
title in which such reference is made; and (3) a reference to a
chapter refers to a chapter of this title.