A condition involving a forfeiture must be strictly interpreted against the party for whose benefit it is created.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1442
Conditional Obligations
Applied in 49 court decisions — leading case 40 Cal. 3d 488 - Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc. (1985)
Most recently applied in ROSE, LLC VS. TREASURE ISLAND, LLC (June 2019)
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.