Definition of surety

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Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail..

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Fidejussor :: Fidejussor (n.) A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor..
Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety..
Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
Godfather :: Godfather (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction..
Unsurety :: Unsurety (n.) Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.
Security :: Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge..
Principal :: Principal (n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety..
Pledgery :: Pledgery (n.) A pledging; suretyship.
Guarantor :: Guarantor (n.) One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.
Surety :: Surety (n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
Surety :: Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail..
Nonsurety :: Nonsurety (n.) Insecurity.
Borough :: Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.
Engager :: Engager (n.) One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
Bail Bond :: Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ..
Cosurety :: Cosurety (n.) One who is surety with another.
Surf :: Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another..
Mainpernable :: Mainpernable (a.) Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
Liable :: Liable (v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal..
Discuss :: Discuss (v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety..
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