This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Bond and Undertaking Law.
§ 995.010.Title of Law
Title 14. Of Miscellaneous Provisions · Chapter 2. Bonds and Undertakings · Article 1. Preliminary Provisions and Definitions · Enacted 1982 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 28, 2026
In one sentenceSection 995.010 gives this chapter its official short name, the Bond and Undertaking Law, the general statutory framework California uses whenever another statute calls for a bond or undertaking in an action, proceeding, or as a license or permit condition.
Full Text of § 995.010
Plain-English Summary
A short section doing a big job: it names the chapter. Everything from here through § 996.560 is officially the Bond and Undertaking Law, and that name is what other statutes across the Code of Civil Procedure and elsewhere point to when they call for a bond or undertaking without spelling out their own rules for it.
That naming matters more than it might look. Dozens of other statutes — governing attachment, injunctions, receivers, appeals, and more — require security without repeating the mechanics of who can be a surety, what the bond has to say, how it gets filed, or when it takes effect. This chapter supplies those mechanics once, and other statutes borrow them by reference.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the official name of this chapter?
The Bond and Undertaking Law, as § 995.010 provides.
Why does this chapter matter to sections outside Title 14?
Many other statutes that require a bond or undertaking — for attachment, injunctions, appeals, receivers, and more — rely on this chapter's general rules instead of setting their own.
Amendment History
Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 998, Sec. 1.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 28, 2026.
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