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Article 866

De l'Extinction des Obligations

Contract Law
Titre XVII: Des Contrats ou Obligations conventionnelles en général (On Contracts or Conventional Obligations in General)
Chapitre IV: De l'Extinction des Obligations (On the Extinction of Obligations)

Les cautions sont libérées par la décharge conventionnelle, ou la remise faite au débiteur principal ; mais celle faite à l'une des cautions, ne libère ni le principal débiteur, ni les autres cautions.

Life lesson: Release the main debtor and all sureties go free — but releasing one surety doesn't help the others.
Notes: Release of principal debtor discharges sureties. Release of one surety does not discharge others. Cf. Code Napoléon Art. 1287.
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