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correal

correal

English

Adjective

correal (not comparable)

  1. (Roman law) Under joint obligation (applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable).

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  • Correal” listed on page 1,013 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1893]
      Correal (kǫ̆rī·ăl), a.Roman Law. [f. L. correus, conreus (f. cor-, con- together + reus one under obligation) + -al.] Under joint obligation: applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable. [¶] 1875 Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 398 A second difference between Correality and Solidarity consists in the fact that in Solidarity the guarantor who pays the whole has regressus against his co-guarantors, that is to say, has a power of recovering from them contribution of their share of the debt: whereas the Correal debtor who pays has no regressus or right to contribution.
  • correal, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]