Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, fault, or conduct of another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law An accessory agreement through which a person binds themselves for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for their debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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[4046] Give not ear to tale-tellers, babblers, be not scurrilous in conversation: [4047] jest without bitterness: give no man cause of offence: set thine house in order: [4048] take heed of suretyship.
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Be it by suretyship, shipwreck, fire, spoil and pillage of soldiers, or what loss soever, it boots not, it will work the like effect, the same desolation in provinces and cities, as well as private persons.
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The OBS said it was strongly against this practice and had decided against the banks in several matters involving universal suretyship agreements over the years.
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Chief of these was the use by banks of universal (unlimited) suretyship agreements.
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And for suretyship he exposes it as a matter unsafe, nay highly dangerous, declaring that to be bound for idle and wicked men is full of hazard.
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But Chersias smiling would not satisfy them, until they resolved him the meaning of these aphorisms; “Do not overdo,” “Know thyself,” but particularly and principally this, — which had scared divers from wedlock and others from suretyship and others for speaking at all, — “promise, and you are ruined.”
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
Proverbs 11. 1999
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As security the bank held a notarial bond over FPJ movable assets and deed of suretyship signed by Boesak.
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A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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