When several people are liable for a debt or obligation and the creditor can sue and collect the entire from each one or in any proportion from the group of debtors. … [Read more...]

A lawsuit that is filed by two or more parties as a result of a common issue in controversy. … [Read more...]

In old English law. A game of hazard. Reg. Orig. 290. … [Read more...]

One in which the contractors are jointly bound to perform the promise or obligation therein contained, or entitled to receive the benefit of such promise or obligation. 2. It is a general rule that a joint contract survives, whatever may be the beneficial interests of the parties under it; where a partner, covenantor, or other person entitled, having a joint interest in a … [Read more...]

In old English practice. A divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, as that one should lose if the case turned out in a certain way, and, if it did not, that the other should gain. Bract fols. 211b, 379b, 432, 434, 200b. … [Read more...]