§ 489.010.Applicability of Bond and Undertaking Law

Attachment law asks a plaintiff to post several different bonds along the way -- one to get the writ, one a defendant can post to get property back, one on appeal. Rather than writing separate rules for how each of those bonds is drafted, approved, enforced, and released, § 489.010 borrows an existing body of law: the Bond and Undertaking Law found at CCP § 995.010 and following.

That borrowed law covers the mechanics every bond needs -- who can act as a surety, what a bond must say, how a party challenges a bond's sufficiency, how a surety is released, and how a judgment creditor collects against a bond that turns out to be worthless. Section 489.010 folds all of that into Title 6.5's attachment scheme automatically.

The borrowing has one limit: it only fills gaps. Where this title spells out its own rule -- the $10,000 default undertaking amount in § 489.220, for instance, or the ten-day filing window in § 489.410 -- that specific rule controls. Section 995.010's general provisions step back whenever Title 6.5 has already spoken.