Sec. 5.

The provisions of this act shall extend to joint debtors in the same manner as it now extends to copartners and such joint debtors are hereby authorized individually to settle or compromise and be discharged from their joint indebtedness in the same manner as is herein provided for the settlement and compromise of copartners.

History: 1859, Act 181, Eff. May 18, 1859 ;– CL 1871, 6203 ;– How. 7787 ;– CL 1897, 10453 ;– CL 1915, 14585 ;– CL 1929, 9939 ;– CL 1948, 449.155