California Civil Code CHAPTER 2 - Parties

• Section 1556.
  All persons are capable of contracting, except minors, persons of unsound mind, and persons deprived of civil rights.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1557.
  (a) The capacity of a minor to contract is governed by Division 11 (commencing with Section 6500) of the Family Code.(b) The capacity of a person of...
• Section 1558.
  It is essential to the validity of a contract, not only that the parties should exist, but that it should be possible to identify them.(Enacted
• Section 1559.
  A contract, made expressly for the benefit of a third person, may be enforced by him at any time before the parties thereto rescind it.(Enacted

Last modified: October 22, 2018