{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-7-23","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 10-7-23","heading":"Refusal to deliver evidence of debt and securities on tender of amount of debt as discharging surety.","body":"The surety may tender to the creditor the amount of his debt and demand that the evidence of and the securities for the same be delivered up to him to be enforced against his principal or cosureties; and a failure of the creditor to comply, when within his power, shall operate to discharge the surety.","path":["TITLE 10 Commerce and Trade","CHAPTER 7 Suretyship","Article 2 Relative Rights of Creditor and Surety"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.10.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"c5379605bcd3da202690d5ae9f0c0c05a4f2295ccb67a637a1663337674595fa","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-7-22","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-7-24"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}