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California Civil Code

§ 1577

CIV § 1577Div. 3 · Title 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 3

Statute text

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Mistake of fact is a mistake, not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake, and consisting in: 1. An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or, 2. Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract, which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing, which has not existed.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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