{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-2940","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 2940","heading":"","body":"A certificate of the discharge of a mortgage, and the proof or acknowledgment thereof, must be recorded in the office of the county recorder in which the mortgage is recorded.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","PART 4. OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS [1738. - 3273.91.]","TITLE 14. LIEN [2872. - 3081.]","CHAPTER 2. Mortgage [2920. - 2968.]","ARTICLE 1. Mortgages in General [2920. - 2944.10.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"4a334ebfd63ad7ca0510b0a9bb77704bba44e676ada2a845fe47869b9c4455e8","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-2939.5","next":"us-ca/civ-2941"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}