Cal. Civil Code § 2224 : Involuntary Trusts — California Civil Code — Obligations — Involuntary trustee of thing gained by fraud, accident, mistake or undue influence

Current through the 2016 Legislative Session

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.

Ca. Civ. Code § 2224