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CIV § 1577

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Civil Code - CIV
  2. DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]
  3. PART 2. CONTRACTS [1549. - 1701.]
  4. TITLE 1. NATURE OF A CONTRACT [1549. - 1615.]
  5. CHAPTER 3. Consent [1565. - 1590.]

Mistake of fact is a mistake, not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake, and consisting in:

1. An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or,

2. Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract, which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing, which has not existed.

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