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Joint Bond

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The bond of two or more obligors, the action to enforce which must be joint against them all.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A bond in which the obligors are only liable in combination and not severally. See 25 R. I. 289, 105 Am. St. Rep. 890, 63 L. R. A. (R. I.) 235, 55 Atl. 750.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The bond of two. or more obligors, the action to enforce which must be joint against them all.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

One in which the obligors (two or more in number) bind themselves jointly, but not severally, and which must therefore be prosecuted in a joint action against all the obligois.