A proposal may be revoked at any time before its acceptance is communicated to the proposer, but not afterwards.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1586
Consent
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Universal By-Products, Inc. v. City of Modesto (1974)
Most recently applied in Featherstone v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group (April 2017)
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.