9 Cited authorities

  1. Section 337 - Contract, obligation or liability founded upon written instrument; book account; rescission of contract

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337   Cited 1,689 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Governing rescissions of written contracts
  2. Section 340 - Penalty or forfeiture; libel, slander, false imprisonment, seduction, payment on forged check, neglect of animal; officer seizing property; good faith improver

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 340   Cited 1,569 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Providing a one-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims arising prior to January 1, 2003
  3. Section 339 - Contract, obligation not founded on written instrument; against sheriff or coroner for doing official act; rescission of contract not in writing

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 339   Cited 1,515 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a plaintiff must initiate within two years "[a]n action upon a contract, obligation or liability not founded upon an instrument of writing"
  4. Section 343 - Action for relief not provided

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 343   Cited 646 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Specifying the limitations period for actions not otherwise specified
  5. Section 17208 - Statute of limitations

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17208   Cited 631 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Governing UCL claims
  6. Section 3439.09 - Limitation of action

    Cal. Civ. Code § 3439.09   Cited 151 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Stating that the purpose of the section "is to make clear that lapse of the statutory periods prescribed by the section bars the right and not merely the remedy"
  7. Section 431.30 - General denial; denial made positively or according to information and belief of defendant

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 431.30   Cited 148 times
    Requiring an answer to contain both a general or specific denial of factual allegations, § 431.30(b), and a statement of "any new matter constituting a defense," § 431.30(b)
  8. Section 1530 - Novation defined

    Cal. Civ. Code § 1530   Cited 134 times

    Novation is the substitution of a new obligation for an existing one. Ca. Civ. Code § 1530 Enacted 1872.