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Surety

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A person who binds himself for the payment of a sum of money, or for the performance of something else, for another, who is already bound for the same.

See Suretyship.