The sale of any property on which there is a lien, in satisfaction of the claim secured thereby, or in case of personal property, its wrongful conversion by the person holding the lien, extinguishes the lien thereon.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2910
Extinction of Liens
Applied in 22 court decisions — leading case 10 Cal. 4th 1226 - Alliance Mortgage Co. v. Rothwell (1995)
Most recently applied in Dannie Guerrero v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding (October 2010)
Enacted 1872.
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