An obligation is extinguished by an offer of performance, made in conformity to the rules herein prescribed, and with intent to extinguish the obligation.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1485
Offer of Performance
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. 2d 1 - Beeler v. American Trust Co. (1944)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 528 - Turner v. Seterus, Inc. (September 2018)
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.
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