Estate of Stepney
This text of 5 Coffey 438 (Estate of Stepney) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Escheat—Form of Proceeding to Procure.—To Procure an Escheat, whether of real or of personal property, there must be a proceeding in conformity with sections 1269-1272 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Escheat—When does not Occur.—When There has been a Final Decree of distribution of the estate of a decedent administered by the public administrator, the fact that one heir does not appear and claim his share of the fund, but permits it to remain in the county treasury, does not work a forfeiture of his right, nor authorize a change of the custody of the money from the county to the state treasury.
Escheat.—There can be No Escheat, except when the last known owner of the property is dead.
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