suretyship
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʃʊəɹɪtiːʃɪp/, /ˈʃɔːɹətiːʃɪp/
Noun
suretyship (plural suretyships)
- (law) An accessory agreement through which one binds oneself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for one's debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.290:
- as a man desperately swimming drowns him that comes to help him, by suretyship and borrowing they will willingly undo all their associates and allies […].
Translations
agreement
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