“But there were circumstances, apart from indivisibility, in which each of the parties might be liable in full…. Several were liable or entitled, each in solidum, under an obligation, but the thing was due only once. Satisfaction by, or to, one of those liable, or entitled, ended the whole obligation, and action by one of the joint creditors, or against one of the debtors, not only ‘novated’ the obligation between the actual parties, but destroyed it altogether as against the others. This relation is commonly called correality (correi debendi vel credendi).” W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 349–50 (2d ed. 1939).
correality
correality (kor-ee-al-[schwa]-tee), 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.
