Mera Samvidhaan All of Indian Contract Act, 1872

Chapter VIII · Of Indemnity and Guarantee

138Release of one co-surety does not discharge others.

Section 138 · Chapter VIII · page 37 of the Act

Where there are co-sureties, a release by the creditor of one of them does not discharge the others; neither does it free the surety so released from his responsibility to the other sureties1.

1 See s. 44, supra.

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