California Code
PART 4 - OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS
TITLE 13 - SURETYSHIP

ARTICLE 1 - Definition of Suretyship

Section 2787. - 2787. The distinction between sureties and guarantors is hereby abolished....

Section 2788. - 2788. A person may become surety even without the knowledge...

ARTICLE 2 - Creation of Suretyship

Section 2792. - 2792. Where a suretyship obligation is entered into at the...

Section 2793. - 2793. Except as prescribed by the next section, a suretyship...

Section 2794. - 2794. A promise to answer for the obligation of another,...

Section 2795. - 2795. Unless notice of acceptance is expressly required, an offer...

ARTICLE 3 - Interpretation of Suretyship

Section 2799. - 2799. In an assumption of liability as surety in connection...

Section 2800. - 2800. A guaranty to the effect that an obligation is...

Section 2801. - 2801. A guaranty, such as is mentioned in the last...

Section 2802. - 2802. In the cases mentioned in Section 2800, the removal...

ARTICLE 4 - Liability of Sureties

Section 2806. - 2806. A suretyship obligation is to be deemed unconditional unless...

Section 2807. - 2807. A surety who has assumed liability for payment or...

Section 2808. - 2808. Where one assumes liability as surety upon a conditional...

Section 2809. - 2809. The obligation of a surety must be neither larger...

Section 2810. - 2810. A surety is liable, notwithstanding any mere personal disability...

Section 2811. - 2811. Any party required to give a bond undertaking or...

ARTICLE 5 - Continuing Guaranty

Section 2814. - 2814. A guaranty relating to a future liability of the...

Section 2815. - 2815. A continuing guaranty may be revoked at any time...

ARTICLE 6 - Exoneration of Sureties

Section 2819. - 2819. A surety is exonerated, except so far as he...

Section 2820. - 2820. That a promise by a creditor is for any...

Section 2821. - 2821. The rescission of an agreement altering the original obligation...

Section 2822. - 2822. (a) The acceptance, by a creditor, of anything in...

Section 2823. - 2823. Mere delay on the part of a creditor to...

Section 2824. - 2824. A surety, who has been indemnified by the principal,...

Section 2825. - 2825. A surety is not exonerated by the discharge of...

ARTICLE 7 - Position of Sureties

Section 2832. - 2832. One who appears to be a principal, whether by...

Section 2837. - 2837. In interpreting the terms of a contract of suretyship,...

Section 2838. - 2838. Notwithstanding the recovery of judgment by a creditor against...

Section [2839.]. - [2839.] Section Twenty-eight Hundred and Thirty-nine. Performance of the principal...

Section 2845. - 2845. A surety may require the creditor, subject to Section...

Section 2846. - 2846. A surety may compel his principal to perform the...

Section 2847. - 2847. If a surety satisfies the principal obligation, or any...

Section 2848. - 2848. A surety, upon satisfying the obligation of the principal,...

Section 2849. - 2849. A surety is entitled to the benefit of every...

Section 2850. - 2850. Whenever property of a surety is hypothecated with property...

Section 2854. - 2854. A creditor is entitled to the benefit of everything...

Section 2855. - 2855. An arbitration award rendered against a principal alone shall...

Section 2856. - 2856. (a) Any guarantor or other surety, including a guarantor...