a. [ad. F. solidaire: see SOLID a. and -ARY.]

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  1.  Civil Law. Joint and several.

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1818.  Colebrooke, Treat. Obligations & Contracts, xiv. 149. The solidary obligation can hardly arise, without such an express provision.

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1875.  Poste, Gaius, III. 397–8. Election to sue the principal debtor discharges a Correal surety or his heir, but not a solidary surety.

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1895.  Law Times, XCIX. 465/1. Anyone who has grasped the difference between a correal and a solidary obligation.

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  2.  Characterized by or having solidarity or community of interests.

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1848.  Tait’s Mag., XV. 251/1. Regarding as solidary, or indissolubly connected together, all the members of the great human family.

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1867.  Visct. Strangford, Selection (1869), II. 64. A struggling Christian population, solidary in sentiment and interest with all other Christian populations in Turkey.

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