No person whose interest is subject to the lien of a mortgage may do any act which will substantially impair the mortgagee’s security.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2929
Mortgages in General
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 15 Cal. 3d 590 - Cornelison v. Kornbluth (1975)
Most recently applied in Fait v. New Faze Development, Inc. (June 2012)
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.
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