 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914
...the Practice Act provides that 'persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument . . . may all, or any of them, be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff.' This section changes the common law rule, that one or all, and not any intermediate number, may be... | |
 | Guam, John A. Bohn - Civil procedure - 1970
...§ 383. Persons severally liable as sureties may join as plaintiffs in action affecting obligation. Persons severally liable upon the same obligation...in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff; and all or any of them join as plaintiffs in the same action, concerning or affecting the obligation... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862
...Stut., p. 535, tec. 36,) which authorizes a Plaintiff, at his option, to include in oue action all persons severally liable upon the same obligation...instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange or promissory notes, and sureties on the same, does not change the rule in this State, fbliom v. Curb,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884
...to-wit: "All persons jointly or severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes,...sureties on the same or separate instruments, may itJl, or any of them, be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff." The principal... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...as to parties who may be joined as defendants, the Code of Civil Procedure, section 383, declares: "Persons severally liable upon the same obligation...the same action, at the option of the plaintiff." By a liberal construction of this provision it may be fairly said that an indorser, such as this defendant... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...Practice Act provides that " persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument * * * may all, or any of them, be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff." This section changes the common law rule, •that one or all, and not any intermediate number, may... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...Civil Procedure provides that " persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument .... may all or any of them be included in the same action at the option of the plaintiff." Under this section the plaintiff had the right at her election to join as defendants one or more or... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, David Dudley Field - Law - 1998 - 3634 pages
...before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. Amended, Code, § 119. § 611. Persons severally liable upon the same obligation...in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff. Amended Code. § 120, amended. § 612. An action does not abate by the death, marriage or other disability... | |
 | Robert Wyness Millar - History - 1952 - 534 pages
...confined to the case of bills of exchange and promissory notes 4 — that "persons severally liable on the same obligation or instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes, may, all or any of them, be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff." Correlatively... | |
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Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes, and sureties on the same or separate instruments, may all or any of them be included in the same action, at the option of... 
