CHAPTER 4. Object of a Contract

Chapter 4 enacted 1872.

§§ 1595–1599 · 5 sections

• § 1595 The object of a contract is the thing which it is agreed, on the part of the party receiving the consideration, to do or not to do.
• § 1596 The object of a contract must be lawful when the contract is made, and possible and ascertainable by the time the contract is to be performed.
• § 1597 Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
• § 1598 Where a contract has but a single object, and such object is unlawful, whether in whole or in part, or wholly impossible of performance, or so vaguely…
• § 1599 Where a contract has several distinct objects, of which one at least is lawful, and one at least is unlawful, in whole or in part, the contract is void as to…