44. Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by the promisee does not discharge the other joint promisor or joint promisors; neither does it free the joint promisors so released from responsibility to the other joint promisor or joint promisors. 1
Indian Contract Act, 1872
Section 44: Effect of release of one joint promisor
Chapter IV — Of the Performance of Contracts