What happened to all the undivided shares of California ranchos?

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I learned that in US law the property undergoes partition when a co-owner demands it or a judge orders it.

When titles to Rancho Soquel land were being disputed in court in 1863, Third District Court Judge Samuel B. McKee commissioned a referee to ascertain ownership shares, who in turn commissioned a survey. The judge then ordered the ranch to be partitioned and another set of referees drew the map of the new lots. (The Castros of Soquel by Ronald Powell, pp. 271)

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