A contract is either express or implied.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1619
MANNER OF CREATING CONTRACTS
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 52 Cal. 4th 1171 - Retired Employees Ass'n of Orange County, Inc. v. County of Orange (2011)
Most recently applied in Port Med. Wellness, Inc. v. Conn. Gen. Life Ins. Co. (May 2018)
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.