California Civil Code TITLE 1 - DEFINITION OF OBLIGATIONS

• Section 1427.
  An obligation is a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section [1428.].
   Section Fourteen Hundred and Twenty-eight. An obligation arises either from:One—The contract of the parties; or,Two—The operation of law. An obligation arising from operation of law...

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