Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 28-11-204 - Liability under guaranty that obligation is good or collectible(1) A guaranty to the effect that an obligation is good or is collectible imports that the debtor is solvent and that the demand is collectible by the usual legal proceedings if taken with reasonable diligence.(2) A guaranty such as is mentioned in subsection (1) is not discharged by an omission to take proceedings upon the principal debt or upon any collateral security for its payment if no part of the debt could have been collected thereby.(3) In the case mentioned in subsection (1), the removal of the principal from the state, leaving no property therein from which the obligation might be satisfied, is equivalent to the insolvency of the principal in its effect upon the rights and obligations of the guarantor.En. Secs. 3621, 3622, 3623, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Secs. 5663, 5664, 5665, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Secs. 8178, 8179, 8180, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Secs. 2800, 2801, 2802; Field Civ. C. Secs. 1541, 1542, 1543; re-en. Secs. 8178, 8179, 8180, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 30-108, 30-109, 30-110.