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CHAPTER IV OF THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS · By whom contracts must be performed

Section 44: Effect of release of one joint promisor

The Indian Contract Act, 1872

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

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.See s. 138, infra.

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