RCW 19.72.100
Notice to creditor to institute action.
Any person bound as surety upon any contract in writing for the payment of money or the performance of any act, when the right of action has accrued, may require by notice in writing the creditor or obligee forthwith to institute an action upon the contract.
[Code 1881 § 644; RRS § 974. Prior: 1877 p 134 § 647; 1869 p 150 § 584; 1854 p 210 § 426. FORMER PART OF SECTION: Code 1881 § 645; RRS § 975, now codified as RCW 19.72.101.]
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.