CHAPTER 2. Joint or Several Obligations

Chapter 2 enacted 1872.

§§ 1430–1432 · 8 sections

• § 1430 An obligation imposed upon several persons, or a right created in favor of several persons, may be: 1. Joint; 2. Several; or, 3. Joint and several.
• § 1431 Joint Liability An obligation imposed upon several persons, or a right created in favor of several persons, is presumed to be joint, and not several, except as…
• § 1431.1 Findings and Declaration of Purpose The People of the State of California find and declare as follows: a) The legal doctrine of joint and several liability,…
• § 1431.2 Several Liability for Non-economic Damages (a) In any action for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death, based upon principles of comparative…
• § 1431.3 Nothing contained in this measure is intended, in any way, to alter the law of immunity.
• § 1431.4 Amendment or Repeal of Measure. This measure may be amended or repealed by either of the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection (a)…
• § 1431.5 Severability. If any provision of this measure, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder…
• § 1432 Except as provided in Section 877 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a party to a joint, or joint and several obligation, who satisfies more than his share of the…