A surety is not exonerated by the discharge of his principal by operation of law, without the intervention or omission of the creditor.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2825
Exoneration of Sureties
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Bloom v. Bender (1957)
Most recently applied in In Re Chemtura Corp. (April 2011)
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.