CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 312
Substantial Performance
[Name of defendant] contends that [name of plaintiff] did not perform all
of the things that [name of plaintiff] was required to do under the
contract, and therefore [name of defendant] did not have to perform [his/
her/nonbinary pronoun/its] obligations under the contract. To overcome
this contention, [name of plaintiff] must prove both of the following:
1. That [name of plaintiff] made a good faith effort to comply with
the contract; and
2. That [name of defendant] received essentially what the contract
called for because [name of plaintiff]’s failures, if any, were so
trivial or unimportant that they could have been easily fixed or
paid for.
New September 2003; Revised May 2020
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
80128c19cbc42b0396bd7f6cd338d7d14bf481bac965f5261d8659a532553bb8
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