Acts and Regulations

P-19 - Property Act

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Surety
59(1)A person who, being a surety for the debt or duty of another or being liable with another for any debt or duty, pays the debt or performs the duty is entitled to have assigned to him, or to a trustee for him, every judgment, specialty or other security which is held by the creditor in respect of such debt or duty, whether the judgment, specialty or other security is or is not deemed at law to have been satisfied by the payment of the debt or performance of the duty; and such person is entitled to stand in the place of the creditor, and to use all the remedies and, if need be and upon a proper indemnity, to use the name of the creditor in any action or other proceeding in order to obtain from the principal debtor or any co-surety, co-contractor or co-debtor, as the case may be, indemnification for the advances made and loss sustained by the person who shall have so paid the debt, or performed the duty, and such payment or performance so made by the surety shall not be a bar to any such action or other proceeding by him.
59(2)No co-surety, co-contractor or co-debtor shall be entitled to recover from any other co-surety, co-contractor or co-debtor, by the means aforesaid, more than the just proportion to which, as between those parties themselves, such last mentioned person is justly liable.
R.S., c.177, s.56