§ 1589

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

A voluntary acceptance of the benefit of a transaction is equivalent to a consent to all the obligations arising from it, so far as the facts are known, or ought to be known, to the person accepting.

(Enacted 1872.)

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