Cal. Civil Code - CIV § [953.] Section [953.]
Section Nine Hundred and Fifty-three. A thing in action is a right to recover money or other personal property by a judicial proceeding.
ARTICLE 1. Transfer of Things in Action [[953.] - 955.1.]
Cal. Civil Code - CIV 1.
in effectCal. Civil Code - CIV § 954. Section 954.
A thing in action, arising out of the violation of a right of property, or out of an obligation, may be transferred by the owner.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 954.5. Section 954.5.
(a)
Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), a transfer of a right represented by a judgment excluded from coverage of Division 9 of the Commercial Code by paragraph (9) of subdivision (d) of Section 9109 of the Commercial Code shall be deemed perfected as against third persons upon there being executed and delivered to the transferee an assignment thereof in writing.
(b)
As between bona fide assignees of the same right for value without notice,
the assignee who first becomes an assignee of record, by filing an acknowledgment of assignment of judgment with the court as provided in Section 673 of the Code of Civil Procedure or otherwise becoming an assignee of record, has priority.
(c)
The filing of an acknowledgment of assignment of the judgment with the court under Section 673 of the Code of Civil Procedure is not, of itself, notice to the judgment debtor so as to invalidate any payments made by the judgment debtor that would otherwise be applied to the satisfaction of the judgment.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 955. Section 955.
A transfer other than one intended to create a security interest (paragraph (1) or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 9109 of the Commercial Code) of a nonnegotiable instrument which is otherwise negotiable within Division 3 of the Commercial Code but which is not payable to order or to bearer and a sale of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes as part of a sale of the business out of which they arose (paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 9109 of the Commercial Code) shall be deemed perfected
against third persons when such property rights have been endorsed or assigned in writing and in the case of such instruments or chattel paper delivered to the transferee, whether or not notice of such transfer or sale has been given to the obligor; but such endorsement, assignment, or delivery is not, of itself, notice to the obligor so as to invalidate any payments made by the obligor to the transferor.
Cal. Civil Code - CIV § 955.1. Section 955.1.
(a)
Except as provided in Sections 954.5 and 955 and subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), a transfer other than one intended to create a security interest pursuant to paragraph (1) or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 9109 of the Commercial Code, of any payment intangible, as defined in Section 9102 of the Commercial Code, and any transfer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or
promissory notes excluded from the coverage of Division 9 of the Commercial Code by paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 9109 of the Commercial Code shall be deemed perfected as against third persons upon there being executed and delivered to the transferee an assignment thereof in writing.
(b)
As between bona fide assignees of the same right for value without notice, the assignee first giving notice of the right to the obligor in writing has priority.
(c)
The assignment is not, of itself, notice to the obligor so as to invalidate any payments made by the obligor to the transferor.
(d)
This section does not apply to transfers or assignments of water supply property, as defined in Section 849 of the Public Utilities Code.
(e)
This section does not
apply to transfers or assignments of recovery property, as defined in Section 848 of the Public Utilities Code.
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