Title 18, Business Structure and Function

One who indemnifies another against an act to be done by the latter is liable jointly with the person indemnified, and separately, to every person injured by such act. SOURCE: CC § 2777.

In the interpretation of a contract of indemnity, the following rules are to be applied, unless a contrary intention appears: 1. Upon an indemnity against liability, expressly, or in other equivalent terms, the person indemnified is entitled to recover upon becoming liable; 2. Up…

Where one, at the request of another, engages to answer in damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, for any violation of duty on the part of the latter, he is entitled to be reimbursed in the same manner as a surety, for whatever he may pay. SOURCE: CC § 2779.

Upon those contracts of indemnity which are taken in legal proceedings as the security for performance of an obligation imposed or declared by the tribunals, and known as undertakings or recognizances, the sureties are called bail. SOURCE: CC § 2780.

COL120106 The obligations of bail are governed by the laws specially applicable thereto. SOURCE: CC § 2781. NOTE: No 1970 Civil Code '§ 2782 - 2786 existed. ---------- COL120106 COL120106