A written instrument is presumptive evidence of a consideration.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1614
Consideration
Applied in 78 court decisions — leading case 189 Cal. App. 3d 1485 - Niederer v. Ferreira (1987)
Most recently applied in 369 F. Supp. 3d 983 - ChromaDex, Inc. v. Elysium Health, Inc. (February 2019)
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.