It is essential to the validity of a contract, not only that the parties should exist, but that it should be possible to identify them.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1558
Parties
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 17 Cal. App. 4th 1715 - Westlye v. Look Sports, Inc. (1993)
Most recently applied in Mitch Oberstein v. Live Nation Ent'm't, Inc. (February 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.