Any one may waive the advantage of a law intended solely for their benefit. But a law established for a public reason cannot be contravened by a private agreement.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3513
MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE
Applied in 106 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 4th 585 - People v. Cudjo (1993)
Most recently applied in Brandon Hodges v. Comcast Cable Communications (September 2021)
Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 812, Sec. 2
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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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