Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 7. SURETYSHIP · Article 2. RELATIVE RIGHTS OF CREDITOR AND SURETY

10-7-25. Extending liability.

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The creditor shall pursue his remedy against the surety within the time prescribed by law; and no payment or promise by the principal or by a cosurety shall extend the obligation of the surety or the remedy of the creditor against him.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2135; Code 1868, § 2130; Code 1873, § 2157; Code 1882, § 2157; Civil Code 1895, § 2975; Civil Code 1910, § 3547; Code 1933, § 103-206.

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