Except as provided in Section 877 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a party to a joint, or joint and several obligation, who satisfies more than his share of the claim against all, may require a proportionate contribution from all the parties joined with him.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1432
Joint or Several Obligations
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Maryland Casualty Co. (1998)
Most recently applied in Comerica Bank v. Runyon (October 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 677, Sec. 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.