[CO- 3 c.] One under joint-obligation. So Co-obligor, one who obliges or binds himself together with others.
1818. Colebrooke, Oblig. & Contracts, I. 159. The debtor … is thereby … entitled to sue any one of the co-obligants.
1880. R. Mackenzie, 19th Cent., III. vi. 385. The industrious villager is the co-obligant of the idle and vicious.
1786. Term Reports, I. 163, marg. A co-obligor in a bond to the ordinary.
1847. C. G. Addison, Contracts, II. iv. § 1 (1883), 663. From the relation of the co-obligors or co-promisors inter se.
