Lake v. Lake

Citations

• 52 Cal. 428

Syllabus

<p>Separate Estate or Married Persor.—If a single man is in possession of a tract of land, claiming to own it under a purchase made from grantees of Mexico, and while so in possession marries, and the grant is afterward rejected, and he is then permitted by act of Congress to purchase it, and does purchase it from the United States, the land is his separate estate, and not community property.</p>