§ 2224
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/ca/civil-code/2224A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
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.