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Civil Code § 1690

CHAPTER 2. Rescission

Current as of September 28, 2026Civ. Code, § 1690Official source ↗

Enacted 1872.

A stipulation that errors of description shall not avoid a contract, or shall be the subject of compensation, or both, does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract, and is not capable of exact and entire compensation.