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Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 16700

General Provisions

Applied in 162 court decisions — leading case 39 Cal. 3d 311 - Blank v. Kirwan (1985)

Most recently applied in Costar Group, Inc. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (June 2025)

Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 526.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

The provisions of this chapter are cumulative of each other and of any other provision of law relating to the same subject in effect May 22, 1907.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.