California Code
DIVISION 3 - OBLIGATIONS
PART 1 - OBLIGATIONS IN GENERAL

TITLE 1 - DEFINITION OF OBLIGATIONS

Section 1427. - 1427. An obligation is a legal duty, by which a...

Section [1428.]. - [1428.] Section Fourteen Hundred and Twenty-eight. An obligation arises either...

TITLE 2 - INTERPRETATION OF OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 1 - General Rules of Interpretation

Section 1429. - 1429. The rules which govern the interpretation of contracts are...

CHAPTER 2 - Joint or Several Obligations

Section 1430. - 1430. An obligation imposed upon several persons, or a right...

Section 1431. - 1431. Joint Liability An obligation imposed upon several persons, or...

Section 1431.1. - 1431.1. Findings and Declaration of Purpose The People of the...

Section 1431.2. - 1431.2. Several Liability for Non-economic Damages (a) In any action...

Section 1431.3. - 1431.3. Nothing contained in this measure is intended, in any...

Section 1431.4. - 1431.4. Amendment or Repeal of Measure. This measure may be...

Section 1431.5. - 1431.5. Severability. If any provision of this measure, or the...

Section 1432. - 1432. Except as provided in Section 877 of the Code...

CHAPTER 3 - Conditional Obligations

Section 1434. - 1434. An obligation is conditional, when the rights or duties...

Section 1435. - 1435. Conditions may be precedent, concurrent, or subsequent. (Enacted 1872.)

Section 1436. - 1436. A condition precedent is one which is to be...

Section 1437. - 1437. Conditions concurrent are those which are mutually dependent, and...

Section 1438. - 1438. A condition subsequent is one referring to a future...

Section 1439. - 1439. Before any party to an obligation can require another...

Section 1440. - 1440. If a party to an obligation gives notice to...

Section 1441. - 1441. A condition in a contract, the fulfillment of which...

Section 1442. - 1442. A condition involving a forfeiture must be strictly interpreted...

CHAPTER 4 - Alternative Obligations

Section 1448. - 1448. If an obligation requires the performance of one of...

Section 1449. - 1449. If the party having the right of selection between...

Section 1450. - 1450. The party having the right of selection between alternative...

Section 1451. - 1451. If one of the alternative acts required by an...

TITLE 3 - TRANSFER OF OBLIGATIONS

Section 1457. - 1457. The burden of an obligation may be transferred with...

Section 1458. - 1458. A right arising out of an obligation is the...

Section 1459. - 1459. A non-negotiable written contract for the payment of money...

Section 1459.5. - 1459.5. A plaintiff who prevails on a cause of action...

Section 1460. - 1460. Certain covenants, contained in grants of estates in real...

Section 1461. - 1461. The only covenants which run with the land are...

Section 1462. - 1462. Every covenant contained in a grant of an estate...

Section 1463. - 1463. The last section includes covenants “of warranty,” “for quiet...

Section 1465. - 1465. A covenant running with the land binds those only...

Section 1466. - 1466. No one, merely by reason of having acquired an...

Section 1467. - 1467. Where several persons, holding by several titles, are subject...

Section 1468. - 1468. Each covenant, made by an owner of land with...

Section 1469. - 1469. Each covenant made by the lessor in a lease...

Section 1470. - 1470. Each covenant made by the lessor in a lease...

Section 1471. - 1471. (a) Notwithstanding Section 1468 or any other provision of...

TITLE 4 - EXTINCTION OF OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 1 - Performance

Section 1473. - 1473. Full performance of an obligation, by the party whose...

Section 1474. - 1474. Performance of an obligation, by one of several persons...

Section 1475. - 1475. An obligation in favor of several persons is extinguished...

Section 1476. - 1476. If a creditor, or any one of two or...

Section 1477. - 1477. A partial performance of an indivisible obligation extinguishes a...

Section 1478. - 1478. Performance of an obligation for the delivery of money...

Section [1479.]. - [1479.] Section Fourteen Hundred and Seventy-nine. Where a debtor, under...

CHAPTER 2 - Offer of Performance

Section 1485. - 1485. An obligation is extinguished by an offer of performance,...

Section 1486. - 1486. An offer of partial performance is of no effect....

Section 1487. - 1487. An offer of performance must be made by the...

Section [1488.]. - [1488.] Section Fourteen Hundred and Eighty-eight. An offer of performance...

Section 1489. - 1489. In the absence of an express provision to the...

Section 1490. - 1490. Where an obligation fixes a time for its performance,...

Section 1491. - 1491. Where an obligation does not fix the time for...

Section 1492. - 1492. Where delay in performance is capable of exact and...

Section 1493. - 1493. An offer of performance must be made in good...

Section 1494. - 1494. An offer of performance must be free from any...

Section 1495. - 1495. An offer of performance is of no effect if...

Section 1496. - 1496. The thing to be delivered, if any, need not...

Section 1497. - 1497. A thing, when offered by way of performance, must...

Section 1498. - 1498. When a debtor is entitled to the performance of...

Section 1499. - 1499. A debtor has a right to require from his...

Section 1500. - 1500. An obligation for the payment of money is extinguished...

Section 1501. - 1501. All objections to the mode of an offer of...

Section 1502. - 1502. The title to a thing duly offered in performance...

Section 1503. - 1503. The person offering a thing, other than money, by...

Section 1504. - 1504. An offer of payment or other performance, duly made,...

Section 1505. - 1505. If anything is given to a creditor by way...

CHAPTER 3 - Prevention of Performance or Offer

Section 1511. - 1511. The want of performance of an obligation, or of...

Section [1512.]. - [1512.] Section Fifteen Hundred and Twelve. If the performance of...

Section 1514. - 1514. If performance of an obligation is prevented by any...

Section 1515. - 1515. A refusal by a creditor to accept performance, made...

CHAPTER 4 - Accord and Satisfaction

Section [1521.]. - [1521.] Section Fifteen Hundred and Twenty-one. An accord is an...

Section 1522. - 1522. Though the parties to an accord are bound to...

Section 1523. - 1523. Acceptance, by the creditor, of the consideration of an...

Section [1524.]. - [1524.] Section Fifteen Hundred and Twenty-four. Part performance of an...

Section 1525. - 1525. It is the public policy of this State, in...

Section 1526. - 1526. (a) Where a claim is disputed or unliquidated and...

CHAPTER 5 - Novation

Section 1530. - 1530. Novation is the substitution of a new obligation for...

Section 1531. - 1531. Novation is made: 1. By the substitution of a...

Section 1532. - 1532. Novation is made by contract, and is subject to...

Section [1533.]. - [1533.] Section Fifteen Hundred and Thirty-three. When the obligation of...

CHAPTER 6 - Release

Section 1541. - 1541. An obligation is extinguished by a release therefrom given...

Section 1542. - 1542. A general release does not extend to claims that...

Section 1542.1. - 1542.1. Notwithstanding Section 1542, a provider of health care, as...

Section 1543. - 1543. A release of one of two or more joint...