That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done, in favor of a person to whom, and against a person from whom, performance is due.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3529
MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 23 Cal. 4th 163 - Cortez v. Purolator Air Filtration Products Co. (2000)
Most recently applied in 955 F. Supp. 2d 1110 - Sims v. AT & T Mobility Services LLC (July 2013)
Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 812, Sec. 9
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.