Civil Code · English · 2015

Article 1696

Solidary Liability

(1)

Where several persons are liable to make good the same injury they are bound solidarily.

(2)

In particular, no distinction is made between instigator, principal and accomplice.

(3)

The persons liable to make good the same injury are bound solidarily regardless of whether the obligation to make good has its source for one or other of them in a contract or in an extra-contractual liability.

Article 1696

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