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Cal. Civ. Code § 3523

MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Applied in 60 court decisions — leading case 30 Cal. 4th 167 - Small v. Fritz Companies, Inc. (2003)

Most recently applied in 236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 157 - Peredia v. HR Mobile Servs., Inc. (July 2018)

Enacted 1872.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

For every wrong there is a remedy.

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