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Cal. Civ. Code § 2020

Agents

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 215 Cal. App. 2d 667 - Spaziani v. Millar (1963)

Most recently applied in State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Superior Court (December 1989)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

1928194019601980198910
citing decisions per year

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.

An agent must use ordinary diligence to keep his principal informed of his acts in the course of the agency.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.