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California Civil Code

§ 1690

CIV § 1690Div. 3 · Title 5 · Part 2 · Ch. 2
A stipulation that errors of description shall not avoid a contract, or shall be the subject of compensation, or both, does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract, and is not capable of exact and entire compensation.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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