California Civil Code CHAPTER 5 - Consideration

• Section 1605.
  Any benefit conferred, or agreed to be conferred, upon the promisor, by any other person, to which the promisor is not lawfully entitled, or any...
• Section 1606.
  An existing legal obligation resting upon the promisor, or a moral obligation originating in some benefit conferred upon the promisor, or prejudice suffered by the...
• Section 1607.
  The consideration of a contract must be lawful within the meaning of Section 1667.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1608.
  If any part of a single consideration for one or more objects, or of several considerations for a single object, is unlawful, the entire contract...
• Section 1609.
  A consideration may be executed or executory, in whole or in part. In so far as it is executory it is subject to the provisions...
• Section 1610.
  When a consideration is executory, it is not indispensable that the contract should specify its amount or the means of ascertaining it. It may be...
• Section 1611.
  When a contract does not determine the amount of the consideration, nor the method by which it is to be ascertained, or when it leaves...
• Section 1612.
  Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method is on its face impossible of execution, the...
• Section 1613.
  Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method appears possible on its face, but in fact...
• Section 1614.
  A written instrument is presumptive evidence of a consideration.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1615.
  The burden of showing a want of consideration sufficient to support an instrument lies with the party seeking to invalidate or avoid it.(Enacted 1872.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018