Consent can be communicated with effect, only by some act or omission of the party contracting, by which he intends to communicate it, or which necessarily tends to such communication.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1581
Consent
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 101 Cal. App. 2d 33 - Kritzer v. Citron (1950)
Most recently applied in 223 Cal. App. 4th 730 - Sharifpour v. Le CA4/3 (January 2014)
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.