Cal. FIN § 4859
This is the official text of Cal. FIN § 4859, part of California’s Financial Code — regulates banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial institutions.
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Official statutory text
When a sale becomes effective:
(a) The purchaser shall succeed, without other transfer, to all the rights and property of the seller except any rights and property of the seller which are specifically not sold to the purchasing corporation under the agreement of sale.
(b) The purchaser shall assume and be subject to all the debts and liabilities of the seller in the same manner as if the purchaser had itself incurred them.
(c) All rights of creditors of the seller and all liens upon the property of the seller shall be preserved unimpaired, provided that such liens upon the property of the seller shall be limited to the property affected thereby immediately prior to the time when the sale becomes effective.
(d) Any action or proceeding pending by or against the seller may be prosecuted to judgment, which shall bind the purchaser, or the purchaser may be proceeded against or substituted in place of the seller.
(e) Any reference to the seller in any writing, whether executed or taking effect before or after the sale, shall be deemed a reference to the purchaser, if not inconsistent with the other provisions of the writing.
(f) In case the seller was transacting trust business, the purchaser shall succeed, without further transfer, to the rights, obligations, properties, assets, investments, deposits, demands, agreements, and trusts of the seller under all trusts, executorships, administrations, guardianships, agencies, and all other fiduciary or representative capacities to the same extent as if the purchaser had originally assumed the fiduciary or representative capacities, and the purchaser shall be entitled to take and execute the appointment to all executorships, trusteeships, guardianships, and other fiduciary or representative capacities to which the seller is or may be named in wills, whenever probated, or to which the seller is or may be named or appointed by any other instrument.
(a) The purchaser shall succeed, without other transfer, to all the rights and property of the seller except any rights and property of the seller which are specifically not sold to the purchasing corporation under the agreement of sale.
(b) The purchaser shall assume and be subject to all the debts and liabilities of the seller in the same manner as if the purchaser had itself incurred them.
(c) All rights of creditors of the seller and all liens upon the property of the seller shall be preserved unimpaired, provided that such liens upon the property of the seller shall be limited to the property affected thereby immediately prior to the time when the sale becomes effective.
(d) Any action or proceeding pending by or against the seller may be prosecuted to judgment, which shall bind the purchaser, or the purchaser may be proceeded against or substituted in place of the seller.
(e) Any reference to the seller in any writing, whether executed or taking effect before or after the sale, shall be deemed a reference to the purchaser, if not inconsistent with the other provisions of the writing.
(f) In case the seller was transacting trust business, the purchaser shall succeed, without further transfer, to the rights, obligations, properties, assets, investments, deposits, demands, agreements, and trusts of the seller under all trusts, executorships, administrations, guardianships, agencies, and all other fiduciary or representative capacities to the same extent as if the purchaser had originally assumed the fiduciary or representative capacities, and the purchaser shall be entitled to take and execute the appointment to all executorships, trusteeships, guardianships, and other fiduciary or representative capacities to which the seller is or may be named in wills, whenever probated, or to which the seller is or may be named or appointed by any other instrument.
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