In case of default, when there is more than one surety, each of the sureties is usually required to repay the entire debt. A surety can invoke, unless he has expressly waived it, the benefit of division so that the creditor divides its legal action and reduces it to the share and portion of each of them respectively. The benefit of discussion allows the surety to not pay, unless the main borrower is insolvent.
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