A consent which is not free is nevertheless not absolutely void, but may be rescinded by the parties, in the manner prescribed by the Chapter on Rescission.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1566
Consent
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 37 Cal. App. 4th 775 - Hayes Children Leasing Co. v. NCR Corp. (1995)
Most recently applied in 748 F. Supp. 2d 1145 - Chase Investment Services Corp. v. Law Offices of Jon Divens & Associates, LLC (October 2010)
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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