¶1 On 3 August, 1922, the defendants executed and delivered to the plaintiff eight notes, each in the sum of $1,000, and to secure their payment the defendants D. S. Rogers and Roxilla Rogers, his wife, executed a deed of trust to W. R. Badgett, trustee, on two tracts of land. On 9 December, 1925, the defendants, George M. Rogers and his wife, executed to W. R. Badgett, trustee, a deed of trust, without notes, conveying two other tracts, the recited consideration being the plaintiff’s agreement to extend the time for the payment of the notes secured by the first deed of trust. The plaintiff is a party to this instrument. The appellant contends that by virtue of the latter deed of trust and the recitals therein he was released from liability on the notes he signed. The two questions are whether he was discharged either by novation or by an extension of the time of payment.
¶2 There can be no doubt of the general rule that a nonassenting surety in a negotiable instrument is discharged from liability when the creditor makes a valid contract with the principal debtor to postpone the day of payment and thereby puts it beyond the power of the surety to pay the debt and sue the principal. But, if at the time the extension is granted to the principal, the creditor expressly reserves his remedies against the surety, the latter will not be discharged — this on the theory that in such event the surety could pay the debt and sue the principal, although the creditor could not. Scott v. Harris, 76 N. C., 205, 208; Chemical Co. v. Pegram, 112 N. C., 614; C. S., 3102. In the second deed of trust the plaintiff reserved his rights against the sureties in these words: “It is understood that the party of the third part (the plaintiff) is taking this as additional security and that no rights under the original deed of trust or notes are hereby waived or in any way released.” Besides, when the appellant signed the notes he expressly contracted to remain bound for *212 their payment notwithstanding any extension of time granted to the principal. This is a valid and enforceable agreement. Bank v. Couch, 118 N. C., 436; Fitts v. Grocery Co., 144 N. C., 463.
¶3 That the acceptance of the second deed of trust did not constitute a novation is manifest. Novation implies the extinguishment of one obligation by the substitution of another; but the plaintiff, as already pointed out, instead of extinguishing the debt represented by the notes and the first deed of trust, expressly reserved all his rights and took the second deed as additional security. There is
¶4 No error.