Security For Costs
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Security given by a party to an action to pay any costs which may be adjudged against him therein. Such security is required by statute in various cases, as on appeal, on the bringing of suit by a nonresident, etc.