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2016 Georgia Code
Title 10 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 7 - Suretyship
Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons
§ 10-7-56. Subrogation to rights of creditor -- Priority of claim
GA Code § 10-7-56 (2016) What's This?
A surety who has paid the debt of his principal shall be subrogated, both at law and in equity, to all the rights of the creditor and, in a controversy with other creditors, shall rank in dignity the same as the creditor whose claim he paid.
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