California Civil Code CHAPTER 4 - Object of a Contract

• Section 1595.
  The object of a contract is the thing which it is agreed, on the part of the party receiving the consideration, to do or not...
• Section 1596.
  The object of a contract must be lawful when the contract is made, and possible and ascertainable by the time the contract is to be...
• Section 1597.
  Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1598.
  Where a contract has but a single object, and such object is unlawful, whether in whole or in part, or wholly impossible of performance, or...
• Section 1599.
  Where a contract has several distinct objects, of which one at least is lawful, and one at least is unlawful, in whole or in part,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018