Solidarity
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solidarity
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
A term borrowed from French writers describing mutual interdependence among members of a community, used to justify collective action.
The very ablest of socialistic or semi-socialistic jurists removes the conflict between the power of the State and the freedom of the individual by, at the same time, thrusting into prominence the notion of solidarity, and asserting in language, which might almost be taken from John Mill, the duty of the State to foster individuality of character.
Its appearance gives the most striking example of the way in which different members of the community are bound together by that mutual interdependence for which French writers use the term “solidarity.
Institutes of Roman Law
A Roman-law relation among co-debtors or co-creditors bound by a plurality of distinct but similar obligations, each for the entire amount.
A second difference between Correality and Solidarity consists in the fact that in Solidarity the guarantor who pays the whole has regressus against his co-guarantors, that is to say, has a power of recovering from them contribution of their share of the debt:
Correality and Solidarity agree in this, that in both of them every creditor is severally entitled to receive entire performance of the obligation, and every debitor is bound to discharge the entire liability:
Both Correality and Solidarity, as implying liability for entire but alternative performance, lie in the mean between two extremes: