When one person at the request of another person engages to answer in damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, for any violation of duty on the part of the latter, the former is entitled to be reimbursed in the same manner as a surety for whatever the former may pay.
N.D. Cent. Code § 22-02-08
Engagement to answer for violation of duty of another - Reimbursement
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