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co-sureties

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 28 U.S. 470 - M'Donald v. Magruder · 1830Most cited · 22 citing opinions

joint undertaking required

Co-sureties are bound to contribute equally to the debt they have jointly undertaken to pay; but the undertaking must be joint.

How often courts cite the case defining “co-sureties”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “co-sureties” — 22 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.