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Cal. Civ. Code § 1570

Consent

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 246 Cal. App. 2d 123 - Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District (1966)

Most recently applied in 246 Cal. App. 2d 123 - Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District (November 1966)

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.

Menace consists in a threat:

1. Of such duress as is specified in Subdivisions 1 and 3 of the last section;

2. Of unlawful and violent injury to the person or property of any such person as is specified in the last section; or,

3. Of injury to the character of any such person.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.