CONTRIBUTE

To supply a share or proportional part of money or property towards the prosecution of ·a common enterprise or the discharge of a joint obligation. Park v. Mi ionary Soc., 62 Vt. 19, 20 At;l. 107; Railroad Co. v. Creasy (Tex. Civ. App.) 27 s. w. 945. CONTRmUTION. In common law, The sharing of a lo or payment among several. The act ot any one or several ot ~ number ot co-debtors, co-sureties, etc., in reimbursing one of their number who has paid the whole debt or suffered the whole liability, each to the extent of his proportionate share. Canosia Tp. v. Grand Lake Tp., 80 Minn. 357, 83 N. w. 346; Dysart v. Crow, 170 Mo. 275, 70 S. W. 689; Asp in wall v.,Sacchi, 57 N. Y. 336; Vandiver v. Pollak, 107 Ala. 547, 19,sduth. 180; 54 Am. St. Rep. 118. In maritime la.w. Where the property of one of several parties interested in a ve el and cargo has been voluntarily sacrificed tor the common safety, (as by throwing goods overboard to lighten the ve el,) such 101111 JQUSt be made good by the contribution ot the [s. 270]