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2012 California Codes
CIV - Civil Code
DIVISION 3 - OBLIGATIONS [1427 - 3272.9]
PART 4 - OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS
TITLE 8 - INVOLUNTARY TRUSTS
Section 2224
CA Civ Code § 2224 (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
One who gains a thing by fraud, accident, mistake, undue influence, the violation of a trust, or other wrongful act, is, unless he or she has some other and better right thereto, an involuntary trustee of the thing gained, for the benefit of the person who would otherwise have had it.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 820, Sec. 8. Operative July 1, 1987, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 820.)
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