A contract, made expressly for the benefit of a third person, may be enforced by him at any time before the parties thereto rescind it.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1559
Parties
Applied in 208 court decisions — leading case 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm (1961)
Most recently applied in Kim Ngo v. Bmw of North America, LLC (January 2022)
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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