If a proposal prescribes any conditions concerning the communication of its acceptance, the proposer is not bound unless they are conformed to; but in other cases any reasonable and usual mode may be adopted.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1582
Consent
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 2d 584 - King v. Stanley (1948)
Most recently applied in 232 Cal. App. 4th 294 - Pacific Corporate Group Holdings v. Keck (December 2014)
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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