An obligation is conditional, when the rights or duties of any party thereto depend upon the occurrence of an uncertain event.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1434
Conditional Obligations
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 4th 307 - Platt Pacific, Inc. v. Andelson (1993)
Most recently applied in JMR Construction Corp. v. Environmental Assessment & Remediation Management, Inc. (December 2015)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.