Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.112

c8.112

Several sureties for one debt. If there are more than one sureties it depends on the nature of the previous agreements whether they should jointly pay off the whole debt or each of them should pay off the part of the debt guaranteed by him. The regress of the surety against the debtor generally amounts to the double of what he has paid under compulsion but in the case of natural products, under certain circumstances, it is said to rise even to the eight fold.