Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method appears possible on its face, but in fact is, or becomes, impossible of execution, such provision only is void; but this section shall not apply to the cases provided for in sections 1729 and 1730 of this code.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1613
Consideration
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 26 Cal. 2d 92 - Bewick v. Mecham (1945)
Most recently applied in 258 Cal. App. 2d 473 - Maron v. Howard (January 1968)
Amended by Stats. 1931, Ch. 1070.
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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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