Full performance of an obligation, by the party whose duty it is to perform it, or by any other person on his behalf, and with his assent, if accepted by the creditor, extinguishes it.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1473
Performance [1473. - [1479.]]
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case 105 Cal. App. 4th 428 - Nguyen v. Calhoun (2003)
Most recently applied in Sayler v. Yan Sun (September 2023)
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.