{"code":"CIV","codeName":"Civil Code","section":"1577","citation":"Civ. Code, § 1577","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/civil-code/division-3"},{"name":"PART 2. CONTRACTS [1549. - 1701.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/civil-code/division-3/part-2"},{"name":"TITLE 1. NATURE OF A CONTRACT [1549. - 1615.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/civil-code/division-3/part-2/title-1"},{"name":"CHAPTER 3. Consent [1565. - 1590.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/civil-code/division-3/part-2/title-1/chapter-3"}],"history":"Enacted 1872.","effective":null,"html":"<p>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:</p><p>1. An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or,</p><p>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. </p>","text":"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.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/civil-code/consent-1577","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}