A contract in writing takes effect upon its delivery to the party in whose favor it is made, or to his agent.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1626
MANNER OF CREATING CONTRACTS
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Severance v. Knight-Counihan Co. (1947)
Most recently applied in 87 Cal. App. 3d 422 - Corson v. Brown Motel Investments, Inc. (December 1978)
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.