The damages prescribed by this Chapter are exclusive of exemplary damages and interest, except where those are expressly mentioned.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3357
General Provisions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Bagdasarian v. Gragnon (1948)
Most recently applied in 210 Cal. App. 2d 636 - Mercantile Acceptance Corp. v. Globe Indemnity Co. (December 1962)
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.
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