California Civil Code PART 3 - OBLIGATIONS IMPOSED BY LAW

  • Section 1708.
    Every person is bound, without contract, to abstain from injuring the person or property of another, or infringing upon any of his or her rights.(Amended...
  • Section 1708.5.
    (a) A person commits a sexual battery who does any of the following: (1) Acts with the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact with an...
  • Section 1708.5.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 3515, consent shall not be a defense in any civil action under Section 1708.5 if the person who commits the sexual battery is...
  • Section 1708.6.
    (a) A person is liable for the tort of domestic violence if the plaintiff proves both of the following elements:(1) The infliction of injury upon the plaintiff...
  • Section 1708.7.
    (a) A person is liable for the tort of stalking when the plaintiff proves all of the following elements of the tort:(1) The defendant engaged in a...
  • Section 1708.8.
    (a) A person is liable for physical invasion of privacy when the person knowingly enters onto the land or into the airspace above the land of...
  • Section 1708.85.
    (a) A private cause of action lies against a person who intentionally distributes by any means a photograph, film, videotape, recording, or any other reproduction of...
  • Section 1708.9.
    (a) It is unlawful for any person, except a parent or guardian acting toward his or her minor child, to commit any of the following acts:(1) By...
  • Section 1709.
    One who willfully deceives another with intent to induce him to alter his position to his injury or risk, is liable for any damage which...
  • Section 1710.
    A deceit, within the meaning of the last section, is either:1. The suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does...
  • Section 1710.1.
    Any person who, with intent to defraud, sells or disposes of a radio, piano, phonograph, sewing machine, washing machine, typewriter, adding machine, comptometer, bicycle, firearm,...
  • Section 1710.2.
    (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (d), an owner of real property or his or her agent, or any agent of a transferee of real property, is not...
  • Section 1711.
    One who practices a deceit with intent to defraud the public, or a particular class of persons, is deemed to have intended to defraud every...
  • Section 1712.
    One who obtains a thing without the consent of its owner, or by a consent afterwards rescinded, or by an unlawful exaction which the owner...
  • Section 1713.
    The restoration required by the last section must be made without demand, except where a thing is obtained by mutual mistake, in which case the...
  • Section 1714.
    (a) Everyone is responsible, not only for the result of his or her willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by his or...
  • Section 1714.01.
    (a) Domestic partners shall be entitled to recover damages for negligent infliction of emotional distress to the same extent that spouses are entitled to do so...
  • Section 1714.1.
    (a) Any act of willful misconduct of a minor that results in injury or death to another person or in any injury to the property of...
  • Section 1714.2.
    (a) In order to encourage citizens to participate in emergency medical services training programs and to render emergency medical services to fellow citizens, no person who...
  • Section 1714.21.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “AED” or “defibrillator” means an automated external defibrillator.(2) “CPR” means cardiopulmonary resuscitation.(b) Any person who, in good faith...
  • Section 1714.22.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Opioid antagonist” means naloxone hydrochloride that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for...
  • Section 1714.23.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Anaphylaxis” means a potentially life-threatening hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to a substance.(A) Symptoms of anaphylaxis may include...
  • Section 1714.24.
    (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Collector” includes only those entities authorized by and registered with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to...
  • Section 1714.25.
    (a) Except for injury resulting from gross negligence or intentional misconduct in the preparation or handling of donated food, no person, gleaner, or food facility that...
  • Section 1714.26.
    (a) Except for damage or injury resulting from gross negligence or a willful act, there is no liability for any damage or injury on the part...
  • Section 1714.3.
    Civil liability for any injury to the person or property of another proximately caused by the discharge of a firearm by a minor under the...
  • Section 1714.4.
    (a) Any person or business entity that knowingly assists a child support obligor who has an unpaid child support obligation to escape, evade, or avoid paying...
  • Section 1714.41.
    (a) Any person or business entity that knowingly assists a child support obligor who has an unpaid child support obligation to escape, evade, or avoid paying...
  • Section 1714.43.
    (a) (1) Every retail seller and manufacturer doing business in this state and having annual worldwide gross receipts that exceed one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall disclose,...
  • Section 1714.45.
    (a) In a product liability action, a manufacturer or seller shall not be liable if both of the following apply:(1) The product is inherently unsafe and the...
  • Section 1714.5.
    (a) There shall be no liability on the part of one, including the State of California, county, city and county, city or any other political subdivision...
  • Section 1714.55.
    (a) A retail or wholesale service provider of telecommunications service, or other service, involved in providing 9-1-1 service in accordance with the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act (Article...
  • Section 1714.6.
    The violation of any statute or ordinance shall not establish negligence as a matter of law where the act or omission involved was required in...
  • Section 1714.7.
    No person who is injured while getting on, or attempting to get on, a moving locomotive or railroad car, without authority from the owner or...
  • Section 1714.8.
    (a) No health care provider shall be liable for professional negligence or malpractice for any occurrence or result solely on the basis that the occurrence or...
  • Section 1714.9.
    (a) Notwithstanding statutory or decisional law to the contrary, any person is responsible not only for the results of that person’s willful acts causing injury to...
  • Section 1714.10.a.
    (a) No cause of action against an attorney for a civil conspiracy with his or her client arising from any attempt to contest or compromise a...
  • Section 1714.11.
    (a) Except for damage or injury proximately caused by a grossly negligent act or omission or willful or wanton misconduct of the donor, no public employee...
  • Section 1715.
    Other obligations are prescribed by Divisions I and II of this Code.(Enacted 1872.)
  • Section 1716.
    (a) It is unlawful for a person to solicit payment of money by another by means of a written statement or invoice, or any writing that...
  • Section 1717.
    (a) In any action on a contract, where the contract specifically provides that attorney’s fees and costs, which are incurred to enforce that contract, shall be...
  • Section 1717.5.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided by law or where waived by the parties to an agreement, in any action on a contract based on a book...
  • Section 1718.
    (a) As used in this section:(1) “Farm machinery” means all tools and equipment used in relation to the operation of a farm.(2) “Farm machinery repair shop” means a...
  • Section 1719.
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding any penal sanctions that may apply, any person who passes a check on insufficient funds shall be liable to the payee for the amount...
  • Section 1720.
    (a) If an obligee fails to give a timely response to an inquiry of an obligor concerning any debit or credit applicable to an obligation, he...
  • Section 1721.
    In an action for the intentional and malicious destruction of real or personal property at a site where substantial improvements to real property are under...
  • Section 1722.
    (a) (1) Whenever a contract is entered into between a consumer and a retailer with 25 or more employees relating to the sale of merchandise which is...
  • Section 1723.
    (a) Every retail seller which sells goods to the public in this state that has a policy as to any of those goods of not giving...
  • Section 1725.
    (a) Unless permitted under subdivision (c), no person accepting a negotiable instrument as payment in full or in part for goods or services sold or leased...

Last modified: October 22, 2018