Stipulations which are necessary to make a contract reasonable, or conformable to usage, are implied, in respect to matters concerning which the contract manifests no contrary intention.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1655
INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS
Applied in 43 court decisions — leading case 45 Cal. 2d 474 - California Lettuce Growers, Inc. v. Union Sugar Co. (1955)
Most recently applied in Old Canal Financial Corp. v. Sarsenstone Corp. (April 2016)
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.