California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 4 — General Provisions, Part 4 — Maxims of Jurisprudence, Section 3531
The law never requires impossibilities.
Notes
Establishes that the law never requires impossibilities. The provision states that an impossibility is not something the law requires and repeats that rule in direct terms: what is impossible is not required by the law under this stated provision here.
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