A lien is to be deemed accessory to the act for the performance of which it is a security, whether any person is bound for such performance or not, and is extinguishable in like manner with any other accessory obligation.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2909
Extinction of Liens
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 10 Cal. 4th 1226 - Alliance Mortgage Co. v. Rothwell (1995)
Most recently applied in Martin v. CitiFinancial Services, Inc. (In re Martin) (April 2013)
Enacted 1872.
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.