Certified for Partial Publication.
LAMBDEN, J.
California statutory and case law preceding our state's 1963 enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code established that the indorser of a promissory note could avoid liability for any default by the maker by adding the words "without recourse" or words of equivalent effect— what we will call "the equivalency rule." Specifically, case law held that words assigning all...
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