Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 43.001 — DEFINITION

CP § 43.001Title 2. TRIAL, JUDGMENT, AND APPEAL · Part C. JUDGMENTS · Ch. 43. PRINCIPAL AND SURETY

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.

Legislative history

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