A voluntary acceptance of the benefit of a transaction is equivalent to a consent to all the obligations arising from it, so far as the facts are known, or ought to be known, to the person accepting.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1589
Consent
Applied in 71 court decisions — leading case Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp. (2002)
Most recently applied in Bigsby v. Barclays Capital Real Estate, Inc. (July 2019)
Enacted 1872.
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Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.