California · Civil Code
CIV §[2839.]: Section Twenty-eight Hundred and Thirty-nine.
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Section Twenty-eight Hundred and Thirty-nine. Performance of the principal obligation, or an offer of such performance, duly made as provided in this Code, exonerates a surety.
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