We're studying title covenants in property. Like most homeowners, I ignored the title report that got made when I bought my house in Hollywood (you get like 2,000 pages of material, it's not necessarily obvious which pages are important). The grant deed from 1928 reads in part:

Said above described lots and parcels must not be sold to, lived upon nor occupied by any other than persons of the white or Caucasian race, except that others may live thereon in the capacity of servants only. No horses, cows, chickens, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, rabbits, goats, hogs, nor any other animals nor fowls may be kept on said lots or parcel excepting that a dog or cat may be kept thereon as a pet only... The breach of any of the foregoing conditions and covenants shall cause such premises ... to be forfeited and revert to the grantor.

The race covenants are now illegal in California, as is the reversion to the grantor. The side effect is I can keep goats and ducks with impunity.

23 Apr 05