DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS 1427-3272.9›PART 2. CONTRACTS 1549-1701›TITLE 5. EXTINCTION OF CONTRACTS 1682-1701›CHAPTER 2. Rescission 1688-1693

§ 1690

California Civil Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A stipulation that errors of description shall not avoid a contract, or shall be the subject of compensation, or both, does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract, and is not capable of exact and entire compensation.

(Enacted 1872.)

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