A suretyship obligation is to be deemed unconditional unless its terms import some condition precedent to the liability of the surety.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2806
Liability of Sureties
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Western Security Bank v. Superior Court (1997)
Most recently applied in JMR Construction Corp. v. Environmental Assessment & Remediation Management, Inc. (December 2015)
Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 453.
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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.