Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 43.001 · Chapter 43. PRINCIPAL AND SURETY

DEFINITION.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

In this chapter, "surety" includes:

(1) an endorser, a guarantor, and a drawer of a draft that has been accepted; and

(2) every other form of suretyship, whether created by express contract or by operation of law.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 2.11, eff. April 1, 2009.

Source of truth

Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.43.htm
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