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DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS 1427-3273.91›PART 2. CONTRACTS 1549-1701›TITLE 1. NATURE OF A CONTRACT 1549-1615›CHAPTER 5. Consideration 1605-1615

§ 1605

California Civil Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

Any benefit conferred, or agreed to be conferred, upon the promisor, by any other person, to which the promisor is not lawfully entitled, or any prejudice suffered, or agreed to be suffered, by such person, other than such as he is at the time of consent lawfully bound to suffer, as an inducement to the promisor, is a good consideration for a promise.

(Enacted 1872.)

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