California Statutes

§ 2224. — 2224. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 820, Sec. 8.)

California § 2224.
JurisdictionCalifornia
Code CIVCivil Code - CIV
Div. 3.DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS
Title8.
Part 4.TITLE 8. INVOLUNTARY TRUSTS

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One who gains a thing by fraud, accident, mistake, undue influence, the violation of a trust, or other wrongful act, is, unless he or she has some other and better right thereto, an involuntary trustee of the thing gained, for the benefit of the person who would otherwise have had it.

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Legislative History

Repealed and added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 820, Sec. 8. Operative July 1, 1987, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 820.

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