An express contract is one, the terms of which are stated in words.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1620
MANNER OF CREATING CONTRACTS
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case Youngman v. Nevada Irrigation District (1969)
Most recently applied in Sayler v. Yan Sun (September 2023)
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.