CACI 327 Assignment Not Contested
California Civil Jury Instructions CACI
327 Assignment Not Contested
[Name of plaintiff] was not a party to the original contract. However, [he/she/nonbinary pronoun/it] may bring a claim for breach of contract because [name of assignor] transferred the rights under the contract to [name of plaintiff]. This transfer is referred to as an “assignment.”
Directions for Use
This instruction is intended to explain to the jury why a party not named in the original contract is nevertheless a party to the case.
Sources and Authority
•Oral Assignment. Civil Code section 1052.
•“To ‘assign’ ordinarily means to transfer title or ownership of property, but an assignment, to be effective, must include manifestation to another person by the owner of his intention to transfer the right, without further action, to such other person or to a third person. It is the substance and not the form of a transaction which determines whether an assignment was intended. If from the entire transaction and the conduct of the parties it clearly appears that the intent of the parties was to pass title to the chose in action, then an assignment will be held to have taken place.” (McCown v. Spencer (1970) 8 Cal.App.3d 216, 225 [87 Cal.Rptr. 213], internal citations omitted.)