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Fide-Jussor

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Inlomaniaw.

A guarantor; one who becowes responsible for the payment of another’s debt, by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it if the principal debtor fails to do so.

Mackeld. Rom, Law, § 452; 3 Bl. Comin. 108.

The sureties taken on the arrest of a defendant, in the court of admiralty, were formerly denuminuted “iide-jussors.”

3 Bil. Comm. 108.