No one can take advantage of their own wrong.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3517
MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE
Applied in 99 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 4th 362 - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp. (1994)
Most recently applied in Randy Sugarman, Chapter 11 Tr. for Yellow Cab Coop., Inc. v. Taylor (In re Yellow Cab Coop., Inc.) (April 2019)
Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 812, Sec. 4
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.