Where several persons are liable to make good the same injury they are bound solidarily.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1696
Solidary Liability · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
In particular, no distinction is made between instigator, principal and accomplice.
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.