Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 7. SURETYSHIP · Article 3. RIGHTS OF SURETY AGAINST PRINCIPAL, COSURETIES, AND THIRD PERSONS

10-7-52. Duty to account for indemnification from principal; compelling transfer of security from principal.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

A surety suing for contribution must first account for all money or other things received from the principal to indemnify him against loss; and, if he has paid the entire debt, he may compel his cosurety to transfer to him any mortgage or other security taken from the principal for the protection of such cosurety, by relieving him of all liability for contribution.

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, § 2153; Code 1868, § 2148; Code 1873, § 2175; Code 1882, § 2175; Civil Code 1895, § 2994; Civil Code 1910, § 3566; Code 1933, § 103-403.

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