Guarantee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 42 U.S. 169 - James Bell v. Matthias Bruen · 1843Most cited · 71 citing opinions
letter of guarantee
The letter of Bruen was an agreement to pay the debt of another on his making default: by the statute of frauds, (29 Chs. 2,) such agreement must be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Guarantee”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Guarantee” — 108 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1836–1843
- ORIGINAL
A guarantee is a mercantile instrument, and to be construed according to what is fairly to be presumed to have been the understanding of the parties, without any strict technical nicety.
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