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USA Statutes : maine
Title : Title 14. COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Chapter : Chapter 01. PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
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Title 14 - §1. Treasurers may bring action in own name
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§1. Treasurers may bring action in own name
Treasurers of state, counties, towns and corporations may maintain civil actions in their own names as treasurers on contracts
given to them or their predecessors and prosecute civil actions pending in the names of their predecessors.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
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7 State House Station
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §11. Definitions
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§11. Definitions
In this subchapter, unless otherwise expressly stated, obligation does not include a liability in tort; obligor does not include
a person liable for a tort; obligee does not include a person having a right based on a tort. Several obligors means severally
bound for the same performance.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §12. Discharge of co-obligor by judgment
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§12. Discharge of co-obligor by judgment
A judgment against one or more of several obligors, or against one or more of joint, or of joint and several obligors shall
not discharge a co-obligor who was not a party to the proceeding wherein the judgment was rendered.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §13. Payments credited to co-obligors
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§13. Payments credited to co-obligors
The amount or value of any consideration received by the obligee from one or more of several obligors, or from one or more
of joint, or of joint and several obligors, in whole or in partial satisfaction of their obligations, shall be credited to
the extent of the amount received on the obligations of all co-obligors to whom the obligor or obligors giving the consideration
did not stand in the relation of a surety.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §14. Release with reservation of rights
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§14. Release with reservation of rights
Subject to section 13, the obligee's release or discharge of one or more of several obligors, or of one or more of joint,
or of joint and several obligors shall not discharge co-obligors, against whom the obligee in writing and as part of the same
transaction as the release or discharge, expressly reserves his rights; and in the absence of such a reservation of rights
shall discharge co-obligors only to the extent provided in section 15.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §15. Release without reservation of rights
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§15. Release without reservation of rights
If an obligee releasing or discharging an obligor without express reservation of rights against a co-obligor, then knows or
has reason to know that the obligor released or discharged did not pay so much of the claim as he was bound by his contract
or relation with the co-obligor to pay, the obligee's claim against that co-obligor shall be satisfied to the amount which
the obligee knew or had reason to know that the released or discharged obligor was bound to such co-obligor to pay.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
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If an obligee so releasing or discharging, an obligor has not then such knowledge or reason to know, the obligee's claim against
the co-obligor shall be satisfied to the extent of the lesser of 2 amounts, namely; the amount of the fractional share of
the obligor released or discharged, or the amount that such obligor was bound by his contract or relation with the co-obligor
to pay.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §16. Death of joint obligor
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§16. Death of joint obligor
On the death of a joint obligor in contract, his estate shall be bound as such, jointly and severally with the surviving obligor
or obligors.
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §17. Uniformity of interpretation; title
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 2: MODEL JOINT OBLIGATIONS ACT
§17. Uniformity of interpretation; title
This subchapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those
states which enact it, and may be cited as the Model Joint Obligations Act
[1965, c. 351, § 1 (new).]
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§1
(NEW).
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §2. Actions by unincorporated societies
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§2. Actions by unincorporated societies
Any organized unincorporated society or association may sue in the name of its trustees for the time being and may maintain
an action, though the defendant or defendants or some of them are members of the same society or association.
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §3. Guardian of incompetent party; compensation
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§3. Guardian of incompetent party; compensation
A guardian appointed to prosecute or defend an action for an incompetent party is entitled to a reasonable compensation and
is not liable for costs.
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §4. Action on real covenants of first grantor by assignee of grantee
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§4. Action on real covenants of first grantor by assignee of grantee
The assignee of a grantee or his executor or administrator after eviction by an older and better title may maintain an action
on a covenant of seizin or freedom from encumbrance contained in absolute deeds of the premises between the parties, and recover
such damages as the first grantee might have recovered on eviction, upon filing, with his complaint or at such later time
as the court permits, for the use of his grantor, a release of the covenants of his deed and of all causes of action thereon.
The prior grantee cannot, in such case, release the covenants of the first grantor to the prejudice of his grantee.
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interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §5. Grantee may defend action
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§5. Grantee may defend action
Grantees may appear and defend in civil actions against their grantors in which the real estate conveyed is attached.
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advice, please consult
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Augusta, Maine 04333-0007Title 14 - §6. Property of deceased debtor on joint contract liable (REPEALED)
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: PARTIES AND TITLE OF ACTIONS
Subchapter 1: PARTIES
§6. Property of deceased debtor on joint contract liable (REPEALED)
Section History:
PL 1965,
Ch. 351,
§3
(RP ).
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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