Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 19 Business Regulations -- Miscellaneous - Chapter 19.72 Suretyship

19.72.001 Definitions
See RCW 19.72.109. ...

19.72.020 Individual sureties -- Eligibility
Whenever any bond or recognizance is required, or permitted, by law to be made, given or filed, conditioned upon the doing or not doing of ...

19.72.030 Individual sureties -- Number -- Qualification
Each of such sureties shall have separate property worth the amount specified in the bond or recognizance, over and above all debts and liabilities, and ...

19.72.040 Individual sureties -- Examination -- Approval
In case such bond or recognizance is given in any action or proceeding commenced or pending in any court, the judge or clerk of any ...

19.72.060 Corporate surety
See surety insurance: Chapter 48.28 RCW. ...

19.72.070 Subrogation of surety
When any defendant, surety in a judgment or special bail or replevin or surety in a delivery bond or replevin bond, or any person being ...

19.72.080 Contribution among sureties
Any one of several judgment defendants, and any one of several replevin bail having paid and satisfied the plaintiff, shall have the remedy provided in ...

19.72.090 Default by surety -- Indemnity
No surety or his representative shall confess judgment or suffer judgment by default in any case where he is notified that there is a valid ...

19.72.100 Notice to creditor to institute action
Any person bound as surety upon any contract in writing for the payment of money or the performance of any act, when the right of ...

19.72.101 Failure of creditor to proceed -- Discharge of surety
If the creditor or obligee shall not proceed within a reasonable time to bring his action upon such contract, and prosecute the same to judgment ...

19.72.107 Surety bond -- Liability limited
(1) Except under RCW 19.72.109, surety bond means any form of surety insurance as defined in RCW 48.11.080. A surety bond may not provide any ...

19.72.109 Release from official's, executor's, licensee's, etc., bond -- Definitions
Unless otherwise required by the context, words as used in RCW 19.72.110, and 19.72.130 shall mean: (1) "Bond" shall mean and include any bond, undertaking ...

19.72.110 Release from official's, executor's, licensee's, etc., bond -- Notice, service, proof
Any surety upon any bond described in RCW 19.72.109 desiring to be released from subsequent liability and responsibility on any such bond shall serve upon ...

19.72.130 Release from official's, executor's, licensee's, etc., bond -- Effective date -- Failure to give new bond, effect
On and after the date fixed in the notice as the termination date the surety shall be released from subsequent liability on such bond; and, ...

19.72.140 Suretyship -- Raising issue as defendant
When any action is brought against two or more defendants upon a contract, any one or more of the defendants being surety for the others, ...

19.72.141 Suretyship -- Order to exhaust principal's property
If the finding upon such issue be in favor of the surety, the court shall make an order directing the sheriff to levy the execution ...

19.72.150 Heirs, etc., bound -- Exception
The provisions of RCW 19.72.070 through 19.72.101, 19.72.140, 19.72.141 shall extend to heirs, executors, and administrators of deceased persons, but the provisions of RCW 19.72.101 ...

19.72.160 Assets -- Safekeeping agreements -- Joint control of deposits
It shall be lawful for any party of whom a bond, undertaking or other obligation is required, to agree with his surety or sureties for ...

19.72.170 Bonds not to fail for want of form or substance
No bond required by law, and intended as such bond, shall be void for want of form or substance, recital, or condition; nor shall the ...

19.72.180 Successive recoveries on bond -- Limitation
In the event of the breach of the condition of any bond described in RCW 19.72.109, successive recoveries may be made thereon by any of ...

19.72.900 Application
This chapter applies to all sureties, regardless of whether the sureties are compensated or uncompensated.[1992 c 115 § 2.] ...