{"id":719,"date":"2022-03-21T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/statutes-california-laws\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:45:07","slug":"civil-code-1671","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/civil-code-1671\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Code 1671"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Currrent as of February 4, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l109n6gn-a00972e25b0ac4ae292c781de9ebb8dd\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l109n6gn-a00972e25b0ac4ae292c781de9ebb8dd .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:19px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l109n6gn-a00972e25b0ac4ae292c781de9ebb8dd '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Civil Code \u00a7\u20021671<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"SS_Banner\">Liquidated damages provision for breach of contract<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>(a)<\/strong> This section does not apply in any case where another statute expressly applicable to the contract prescribes the rules or standard for determining the validity of a provision in the contract liquidating the damages for the breach of the contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong> Except as provided in subdivision (c), a provision in a contract liquidating the damages for the breach of the contract is valid unless the party seeking to invalidate the provision establishes that the provision was unreasonable under the circumstances existing at the time the contract was made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(c)<\/strong> The validity of a liquidated damages provision shall be determined under subdivision (d) and not under subdivision (b) where the liquidated damages are sought to be recovered from either:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">(1) A party to a contract for the retail purchase, or rental, by such party of personal property or services, primarily for the party\u2019s personal, family, or household purposes; or<br \/>\n(2) A party to a lease of real property for use as a dwelling by the party or those dependent upon the party for support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(d)<\/strong> In the cases described in subdivision (c), a provision in a contract liquidating damages for the breach of the contract is void except that the parties to such a contract may agree therein upon an amount which shall be presumed to be the amount of damage sustained by a breach thereof, when, from the nature of the case, it would be impracticable or extremely difficult to fix the actual damage.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enacted 1872. Amended Stats 1977 ch 198 \u00a7 5, operative July 1, 1978.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Civil Code 1671<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Civil Code 1671 - California Statutes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/civil-code-1671\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Civil Code 1671 - California Statutes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/civil-code-1671\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"California Statutes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-20T23:45:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\\\/california-statutes\\\/california-statutes\\\/civil-code-1671\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\\\/california-statutes\\\/california-statutes\\\/civil-code-1671\\\/\",\"name\":\"Civil Code 1671 - 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