All persons are capable of contracting, except minors, persons of unsound mind, and persons deprived of civil rights.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1556
Parties
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 40 Cal. 3d 24 - Koire v. Metro Car Wash (1985)
Most recently applied in 248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 244 - Armuress Sapp v. Rogers (June 2019)
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.
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