Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 3429. Section 3429.
A debtor, within the meaning of this Title, is one who, by reason of an existing obligation, is or may become liable to pay money to another, whether such liability is certain or contingent.
TITLE 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES [3429. - 3434.]
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in effectCal. Civil Code - CIV § 3430. Section 3430.
A creditor, within the meaning of this Title, is one in whose favor an obligation exists, by reason of which he is, or may become, entitled to the payment of money.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 3431. Section 3431.
In the absence of fraud, every contract of a debtor is valid against all his creditors, existing or subsequent, who have not acquired a lien on the property affected by such contract.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 3432. Section 3432.
A debtor may pay one creditor in preference to another, or may give to one creditor security for the payment of his demand in preference to another.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 3433. Section 3433.
Where a creditor is entitled to resort to each of several funds for the satisfaction of his claim, and another person has an interest in, or is entitled as a creditor to resort to some, but not all of them, the latter may require the former to seek satisfaction from those funds to which the latter has no such claim, so far as it can be done without impairing the right of the former to complete satisfaction, and without doing injustice to third persons.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 3434. Section 3434.
A lender who makes a loan of money, the proceeds of which are used or may be used by the borrower to finance the design, manufacture, construction, repair, modification or improvement of real or personal property for sale or lease to others, shall not be held liable to third persons for any loss or damage occasioned by any defect in the real or personal property so designed, manufactured, constructed, repaired, modified or improved or for any loss or damage resulting from the failure of the borrower to use due care in the design, manufacture, construction, repair, modification or improvement of such real or personal property, unless such loss or damage is a result of an act
of the lender outside the scope of the activities of a lender of money or unless the lender has been a party to misrepresentations with respect to such real or personal property.
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