Mercantile Law. [Ch. 31. No.4.

all the remedies, and, if need be, and upon a_ proper
indemnity, to use the name of the creditor in any action
or other proceeding at law or in equity, in order to obtain
from the principal debtor, or any co-surety, co-contractor,
or co-debtor, as the case may be, indemnification for the
advances made and loss sustained by the person who shall
have so paid such debt or performed such duty, and such
payment or performance so made by such surety shall not
be pleadable in bar of any such action or other proceeding
by him: Provided that no co-surety, co-contractor, or
co-debtor shall be entitled to recover from any other
co-surety, co-contractor, or co-debtor, by the means
aforesaid, more than the just proportion to which, as between
those parties themselves, such last-mentioned person shall
be justly liable.

12. Whenever there shall be two or more co-contractors
or co-debtors, whether bound or liable jointly only or
jointly and severally, or executors or administrators of any
contractor or debtor, no such co-contractor or co-debtor,
executor, or administrator shall lose the benefit of any
statute, law, or Ordinance relating to the limitation of
actions, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only
of payment of any principal, interest, or other money, by
any other or others of such co-contractors or co- -debtors,
*xecutors or administrators.

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