Mera Samvidhaan All of Indian Contract Act, 1872

Chapter IV · Of the Performance of Contracts

44Effect of release of one joint promisor.

Section 44 · Chapter IV · By whom contracts must be performed · page 23 of the Act

Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by the promisee does not discharge the other joint promisor or joint promisors; neither does it free the joint promisors so released from responsibility to the other joint promisor or joint promisors.1

1 See s. 138, infra.

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