RCW 19.72.090
Default by surety—Indemnity.
No surety or his or her representative shall confess judgment or suffer judgment by default in any case where he or she is notified that there is a valid defense, if the principal will enter himself or herself defendant to the action and tender to the surety or his or her representatives good security to indemnify him or her, to be approved by the court.
[ 2011 c 336 § 547; Code 1881 § 650; RRS § 980. Prior: 1877 p 135 § 653; 1869 p 151 § 590; 1854 p 211 § 432.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 19 - Business Regulations—Miscellaneous
19.72.020 - Individual sureties—Eligibility.
19.72.030 - Individual sureties—Number—Qualification.
19.72.040 - Individual sureties—Examination—Approval.
19.72.070 - Subrogation of surety.
19.72.080 - Contribution among sureties.
19.72.090 - Default by surety—Indemnity.
19.72.100 - Notice to creditor to institute action.
19.72.101 - Failure of creditor to proceed—Discharge of surety.
19.72.107 - Surety bond—Liability limited.
19.72.109 - Release from official's, executor's, licensee's, etc., bond—Definitions.
19.72.110 - Release from official's, executor's, licensee's, etc., bond—Notice, service, proof.
19.72.140 - Suretyship—Raising issue as defendant.
19.72.141 - Suretyship—Order to exhaust principal's property.
19.72.150 - Heirs, etc., bound—Exception.
19.72.160 - Assets—Safekeeping agreements—Joint control of deposits.
19.72.170 - Bonds not to fail for want of form or substance.
19.72.180 - Successive recoveries on bond—Limitation.
19.72.901 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.