The surety and the person whose property is secured for the debt of another may plead the suspension of their liability to the extent that the creditor is entitled to set-off his claim with a debt to the debtor which has fallen due.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1532
Suspension by the Surety · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
They may plead the extinction of their liability to the extent that the creditor has caused a right to set-off with a debt to the debtor to be lost without reasonable grounds and through his fault.