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DIVISION 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS 3274-9566›PART 1. RELIEF 3274-3428›TITLE 3. SPECIFIC AND PREVENTIVE RELIEF 3366-3424›CHAPTER 2. Specific Relief 3375-3415›ARTICLE 4. Revision of Contracts 3399-3402

§ 3399

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

When, through fraud or a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of one party, which the other at the time knew or suspected, a written contract does not truly express the intention of the parties, it may be revised on the application of a party aggrieved, so as to express that intention, so far as it can be done without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons, in good faith and for value.

(Enacted 1872.)

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