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title: O.C.G.A. § 10-7-50. Compelling contribution from cosureties after paying more than equal share; effect of cosurety’s insolvency.
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# O.C.G.A. § 10-7-50. Compelling contribution from cosureties after paying more than equal share; effect of cosurety’s insolvency.

Where several are sureties for the same principal for the same sum of money, either by one or by distinct instruments, and one pays more than an equal share of the sum, he may compel contribution from his cosureties. If one of the cosureties is insolvent, the deficiency in his share must be borne equally by the solvent sureties.

## History

Laws 1840, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 597.; Code 1863, § 2151; Code 1868, § 2146; Code 1873, § 2173; Code 1882, § 2173; Civil Code 1895, § 2992; Civil Code 1910, § 3564; Code 1933, § 103-401.