CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 1908
Reasonable Reliance
In determining whether [name of plaintiff]’s reliance on the
[misrepresentation/concealment/false promise] was reasonable, [he/she/
nonbinary pronoun/it] must first prove that the matter was material. A
matter is material if a reasonable person would find it important in
deciding what to do.
If you decide that the matter is material, you must then decide whether
it was reasonable for [name of plaintiff] to rely on the [misrepresentation/
concealment/false promise]. In making this decision, take into
consideration [name of plaintiff]’s intelligence, knowledge, education, and
experience.
However, it is not reasonable for anyone to rely on a [misrepresentation/
concealment/false promise] that is preposterous. It also is not reasonable
for anyone to rely on a [misrepresentation/concealment/false promise] if
facts that are within [his/her/ nonbinary pronoun] observation show that it
is obviously false.
New September 2003; Revised October 2004, December 2013, May 2020
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
523082cdc29f4bdf8a8c5ce61b82954d7d78accd06bf1a187c63c4bc28cfc3c4
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