All contracts may be oral, except such as are specially required by statute to be in writing.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1622
MANNER OF CREATING CONTRACTS
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Frick v. City of Los Angeles (1896)
Most recently applied in 143 Cal. App. 4th 410 - Simmons v. Ghaderi (September 2006)
Enacted 1872.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.