When a contract does not determine the amount of the consideration, nor the method by which it is to be ascertained, or when it leaves the amount thereof to the discretion of an interested party, the consideration must be so much money as the object of the contract is reasonably worth.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1611
Consideration
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 38 Cal. 3d 913 - Perdue v. Crocker National Bank (1985)
Most recently applied in 3 Cal. App. 5th 1131 - Moran v. Prime Healthcare Management CA4/3 (September 2016)
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.