Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

solidary obligation

. Roman & civil law. An obligation that binds each of two or more debtors for the entire performance. ( Solidary obligations are analogous to common-law joint and several obligations. "A solidary obligation means the separate liability of several persons in respect of one and the same object. The normal case of a solidary obligation is a joint delict, as when two or more persons, acting jointly, do damage to property or commit a theft. So far as the obligation creates a duty to pay damages, it is solidary. Each of the co-delinquents is liable to make good the whole of the same damage." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 361-62 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).