GroundRules
O.C.G.A. § 10-7-56: Subrogation to rights of creditor — Priority of claim.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 10 Commerce and Trade
- CHAPTER 7 Suretyship
- Article 3 Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons
A surety who has paid the debt of his principal shall be subrogated, both at law and in equity, to all the rights of the creditor and, in a controversy with other creditors, shall rank in dignity the same as the creditor whose claim he paid.
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