1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 28
  3. CHAPTER 11
  4. Part 2
  5. 28-11-216 Effect of part performance on guarantor's liability

TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 11. GUARANTY, INDEMNITY, AND SURETYSHIP

Part 2. Guaranty -- Liability and Exoneration of Guarantor

Effect Of Part Performance On Guarantor's Liability

28-11-216. Effect of part performance on guarantor's liability. The acceptance by a creditor of anything in partial satisfaction of an obligation reduces the obligation of a guarantor thereof in the same measure as that of the principal but does not otherwise affect it.

History: En. Sec. 3653, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5676, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8191, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2822; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1554; re-en. Sec. 8191, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 30-211.