A condition precedent is one which is to be performed before some right dependent thereon accrues, or some act dependent thereon is performed.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1436
Conditional Obligations
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 4th 307 - Platt Pacific, Inc. v. Andelson (1993)
Most recently applied in Alfred Johnson v. Winco Foods, LLC (June 2022)
Enacted 1872.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.