Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by the promisee does not discharge the other joint promisor or joint promisors, neither does it free the joint promisors so released from responsibility to the other joint promisor or joint promisors.
Chapter IVO — f the performance of contracts
Section 44
Effect of release of one joint promisor
Printed from Law on Tips • The Indian Contract Act, 1872