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§ 1577. — 1577. (Enacted 1872.)

California·Code CIV Civil Code - CIV·Div. 3. DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS·Title 1.·Part 2. TITLE 1. NATURE OF A CONTRACT·Ch. 3. CHAPTER 3. Consent

Mistake of fact is a mistake, not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake, and consisting in:

1.An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or,
2.Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract, which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing, which has not existed.

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Legislative History

Enacted 1872.
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