A man died without a will and with no sur- viving relatives. His four-acre farm will

Note that the question states the correct answer is D ('pass to the man's devisees'), but the explanation correctly identifies escheat to the government as the proper outcome — this is a clear discrepancy between the answer key and the explanation. Under California Probate Code and the law of intestate succession, when a person dies without a will (intestate) and has no surviving relatives, the property escheats to the State of California; a 'devisee' is someone who receives real property under a will, which cannot exist here since there is no will. The legally accurate answer is A (escheat to the government), and the explanation correctly supports A despite the answer key indicating D.