CHAPTER 2. Parties

Chapter 2 enacted 1872.

§§ 1556–1559 · 4 sections

• § 1556 All persons are capable of contracting, except minors, persons of unsound mind, and persons deprived of civil rights.
• § 1557 (a) The capacity of a minor to contract is governed by Division 11 (commencing with Section 6500) of the Family Code. (b) The capacity of a person of unsound…
• § 1558 It is essential to the validity of a contract, not only that the parties should exist, but that it should be possible to identify them.
• § 1559 A contract, made expressly for the benefit of a third person, may be enforced by him at any time before the parties thereto rescind it.