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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Correal

adj. Of or relating to liability that is joint and several. ( Under Roman law, a correal debtor who paid an entire obligation had no right of action against a codebtor. See CORREUS; SOLIDARY.

Correality

n. The quality or state of being correal; the relationship between parties to an obligation that terminates when an entire payment is made by one of two or more debtors to a creditor, or a payment is made by a debtor to one of two or more creditors.

correal obligation

. Roman law. A joint obligation. "A correal obligation means a plurality of obligations based on a community of obligation: a joint liability in respect of the whole of the same debt or a joint right in respect of the whole of the same claim." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System ofRoman Private Law 361 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).