Every person is bound, without contract, to abstain from injuring the person or property of another, or infringing upon any of his or her rights.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1708
OBLIGATIONS IMPOSED BY LAW
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Paulsen v. CNF Inc. (2009)
Most recently applied in Stephen Bafford v. Northrop Grumman Corp. (April 2021)
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 38.5
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.