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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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..
Guarantor :: Guarantor (n.) One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.
Sureties :: Suretiship (n.) Suretyship.
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..
Fidejussor :: Fidejussor (n.) A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor..
Cosurety :: Cosurety (n.) One who is surety with another.
Nonsurety :: Nonsurety (n.) Insecurity.
Safe-pledge :: Safe-pledge (n.) A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.
Security :: Security (n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation..
Bondsman :: Bondsman (n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another..
Fidejussion :: Fidejussion (n.) The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
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..
Godfather :: Godfather (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction..
Liable :: Liable (v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal..
Sponsor :: Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety..
Mainpernor :: Mainpernor (n.) A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day..
Mainpernable :: Mainpernable (a.) Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
Unsurety :: Unsurety (n.) Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.
Sponsion :: Sponsion (n.) The act of becoming surety for another.
Surety :: Surety (n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.
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