Civil Code - CIV

DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427 - 3272.9]

PART 4. OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS [1738 - 3273]

TITLE 3. DEPOSIT [1813 - 1881.2]

CHAPTER 1. Deposit in General [1813 - 1828]

ARTICLE 2. Obligations of the Depositary [1822 - 1828]

1822.  

A depositary must deliver the thing to the person for whose benefit it was deposited, on demand, whether the deposit was made for a specified time or not, unless he has a lien upon the thing deposited, or has been forbidden or prevented from doing so by the real owner thereof, or by the act of the law, and has given the notice required by Section 1825.

(Enacted 1872.)

1823.  

A depositary is not bound to deliver a thing deposited without demand, even where the deposit is made for a specified time.

(Enacted 1872.)

1824.  

A depositary must deliver the thing deposited at his residence or place of business, as may be most convenient for him.

(Enacted 1872.)

1825.  

A depositary must give prompt notice to the person for whose benefit the deposit was made, of any proceedings taken adversely to his interest in the thing deposited, which may tend to excuse the depositary from delivering the thing to him.

(Enacted 1872.)

1826.  

A depositary, who believes that a thing deposited with him is wrongfully detained from its true owner, may give him notice of the deposit; and if within a reasonable time afterwards he does not claim it, and sufficiently establish his right thereto, and indemnify the depositary against the claim of the depositor, the depositary is exonerated from liability to the person to whom he gave the notice, upon returning the thing to the depositor, or assuming, in good faith, a new obligation changing his position in respect to the thing, to his prejudice.

(Enacted 1872.)

1827.  

If a thing deposited is owned jointly or in common by persons who cannot agree upon the manner of its delivery, the depositary may deliver to each his proper share thereof, if it can be done without injury to the thing.

(Enacted 1872.)

1828.  

When a deposit is made in the name of two or more persons, deliverable or payable to either or to their survivor or survivors, such deposit or any part thereof, or increase thereof, may be delivered or paid to either of said persons or to the survivor or survivors in due course of business.

(Added by Stats. 1907, Ch. 75.)