Right to contribution or reimbursement.
Section 471
SEC. 471. Right to contribution or reimbursement. — When property liable to an execution against several persons is sold thereon, and more than the due proportion of the judgment is satisfied out of the proceeds of the sale of the property of one of them, or one of them pays, without a sale, more than his proportion he may compel a contribution from the others; and when a judgment is against several, and is upon an obligation of one of them, as security for another, and the surety pays the amount, or any part thereof, either by sale of his property or before sale, he may compel repayment from the principal.