Cal. Codes » Civil Code / DIVISION 2. PROPERTY / PART 3. PERSONAL OR MOVABLE PROPERTY / TITLE 2. PARTICULAR KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY [[953.] - 998.] / CHAPTER 1. Things in Action [[953.] - 955.1.] / ARTICLE 1. Transfer of Things in Action [[953.] - 955.1.]
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Cal. Civil Code § 954 (2026)

Transfer of Things in Action [[953.] - 955.1.]

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A thing in action, arising out of the violation of a right of property, or out of an obligation, may be transferred by the owner.

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Cited in 59 cases (9 in the last 5 years), 1916–2026 · leading case: Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1756, AFL-CIO v. Superior Court, 209 P.3d 937 (Cal. 2009).
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Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1756, AFL-CIO v. Superior Court, 209 P.3d 937 (Cal. 2009). · cites it 2× “(Civ. Code, § 954.) The Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 does not create property rights or any other substantive rights.”
AMCO Ins. v. All Solutions Ins. Agency, LLC, 244 Cal. App. 4th 883 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “” The term “obligation” is defined to mean “a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing.”
Gray v. Nationwide Mut. Ins., 223 A.2d 8 (Pa. 1966). · cites it 2× “The need to characterize the insured’s cause of action as one or the other is superfluous in California due to Cal. Civ. Code §954 ; Brown v. Guarantee Ins.”
Almont Ambulatory Surgery Ctr., LLC v. UnitedHealth Grp., Inc., 99 F. Supp. 3d 1110 (C.D. Cal. 2015). “(citing Cal. Civ.Code § 954; Brown v. Guarantee Ins.”
Duke v. Superior Court of Kern Cnty., 18 Cal. App. 5th 490 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017). “The Assignment of the Calloway Judgment to Real Parties Was Proper Preliminarily, we note Duke does not contend the assignment of the judgment *815 from Calloway to real parties was improper.”
Cal-W. Bus. Servs., Inc. v. Corning Capital Grp., 221 Cal. App. 4th 304 (Cal. Ct. App. 2013). “) Civil Code section 954 states that “[a] thing in action, arising out of the violation of a right of property, or out of an obligation, may be transferred by the owner.”
Jasmine Networks, Inc. v. Superior Court, 180 Cal. App. 4th 980 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009). “Such a rule seems far removed from the original purpose of that statute, which was to facilitate, as part of the abolition of forms of action (and the consequent unification of law and equity) the free assignment of causes of action (Civ. Code, § 954), while saving to the…”
McLaughlin v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins., 23 Cal. App. 4th 1132 (Cal. Ct. App. 1994). “(1) The Fraud Claims Are Assignable National Union first argues that neither fraud claim is assignable.”
Arabia v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P., 208 Cal. App. 4th 462 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012). “(Civ. Code, § 954.) With the exception of causes of action of a personal nature, such as injuries arising out of tort, a cause of action is assignable.”
Caglioti v. Dist. Hosp. Partners, LP, 933 A.2d 800 (D.C. 2007). “Cal. Civ.Code § 954 (West 2007) (“A thing in action, arising out of a violation of a right of property, or out of an obligation, may be transferred by the owner.”
Reichert v. Gen. Ins. of Am., 442 P.2d 377 (Cal. 1968). “1927, ch. 744, § 1, p. 1403). This language appears in certain paragraphs between subdivisions 5 and 6.”
Applera Corp. v. MP Biomedicals, LLC, 173 Cal. App. 4th 769 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009). “(Civ. Code, §§ 954 [“A thing in action, arising out of the violation of a right of property, or out of an obligation, may be transferred by the owner.”
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