A creditor, within the meaning of this Title, is one in whose favor an obligation exists, by reason of which he is, or may become, entitled to the payment of money.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3430
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 102 Cal. App. 2d 323 - Downey v. Humphreys (1951)
Most recently applied in 228 Cal. App. 4th 803 - Conservatorship of the Person and Estate of Parker (August 2014)
Enacted 1872.
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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.