California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 3 — Obligations, Part 2 — Contracts, Title 5 — Extinction of Contracts, Chapter 3 — Modification and Cancellation, Section 1700
The intentional destruction, cancellation, or material alteration of a written contract, by a party entitled to any benefit under it, or with his consent, extinguishes all the executory obligations of the contract in his favor, against parties who do not consent to the act.
Notes
Establishes that a beneficiary’s intentional destruction, cancellation, or material alteration of a written contract, or such an act done with the beneficiary’s consent, extinguishes the contract’s executory obligations in that beneficiary’s favor against parties who did not consent to the act.
Use as reference
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