A contract is an agreement to do or not to do a certain thing.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1549
Definition
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. 3d 639 - Jessup Farms v. Baldwin (1983)
Most recently applied in Edward Benton v. Baker Hughes (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.
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