co-obligantn.
One under joint-obligation.
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society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > one under legal obligation or who finds himself > together with others
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1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 159 The debtor..is thereby..entitled to sue any one of the co-obligants.
1880 R. Mackenzie 19th Cent. iii. vi. 385 The industrious villager is the co-obligant of the idle and vicious.
Derivatives
co-ˈobligor n. one who obliges or binds himself together with others.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > one under legal obligation or who finds himself > together with others
co-obligor1786
co-obligant1818
1786 Term Reports I. 163 (margin) A co-obligor in a bond to the ordinary.
1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. iv. §1 663 From the relation of the co-obligors or co-promisors inter se.
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