{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-1690","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 1690","heading":"","body":"A stipulation that errors of description shall not avoid a contract, or shall be the subject of compensation, or both, does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract, and is not capable of exact and entire compensation.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","PART 2. CONTRACTS [1549. - 1701.]","TITLE 5. EXTINCTION OF CONTRACTS [1682. - 1701.]","CHAPTER 2. Rescission [1688. - 1693.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"0eca8814d60cc79bc6e8abc7f41a408c576ef835bd9f5d427d36fa96aa03ab42","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-1689.24","next":"us-ca/civ-1691"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}