Among themselves, the joint and several debtors contribute to the debt only each for his or her share. He who has paid more than his share has recourse against the others in proportion to their own share. If one of them is insolvent, his share is divided, by contribution, between the solvent co-debtors, including the one who made the payment and the one who benefited from a solidarity remission.
If the debt arises from a matter that concerns only one of the joint and several debtors, that debtor alone is liable to the others. If he has paid it, he has no recourse against his co-debtors. If they have paid it, they have recourse against him.
Joint and several debtors are jointly and severally liable for the non-performance of the obligation. The onus is definitively on those to whom the non-performance is attributable.
Each of the creditors of an obligation with an indivisible performance, by nature or by contract, may demand and receive payment in full, subject to rendering an account to the others; but he alone may not dispose of the claim or receive the price instead of the thing. Each of the debtors of such an obligation is bound by it for the whole; but he has his remedies in contribution…
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