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2013 California Code
Code of Civil Procedure - CCP
PART 2. OF CIVIL ACTIONS
TITLE 14. OF MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2. Bonds and Undertakings
ARTICLE 14. Liability of Principal and Sureties
996.490

CA Civ Pro Code § 996.490 (2013) What's This?

(a) Payment by a surety of the amount of a bond constitutes a full discharge of all the liability of the surety on the bond.

(b) Each surety is liable to contribution to cosureties who have made payment in proportion to the amount for which each surety is liable.

(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 998, Sec. 1.)

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