Ratification of part of an indivisible transaction is a ratification of the whole.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2311
Authority of Agents
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 3d 67 - Rakestraw v. Rodrigues (1972)
Most recently applied in 16 Cal. App. 4th 1649 - Friddle v. Epstein (June 1993)
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.