The payment made by any of the joint debtors extinguishes the obligation.\nThe person who made the payment can only claim from his codebtors the shares pertaining to each one with interest on the amounts advanced.\nThe nonfulfilment of the obligation by reason of the insolvency of a joint debtor shall be made good by his codebtors in proportion to the debt of each of them.\nHistory —Civil Code, 1930, § 1098.
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