All things that in law or usage are considered as incidental to a contract, or as necessary to carry it into effect, are implied therefrom, unless some of them are expressly mentioned therein, when all other things of the same class are deemed to be excluded.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1656
INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS
Applied in 24 court decisions — leading case 104 Cal. App. 4th 129 - Alexander v. Codemasters Group Limited (2002)
Most recently applied in 665 F. Supp. 2d 1142 - BRITZ FERTILIZERS, INC. v. Bayer Corp. (October 2009)
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.