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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
A bailment of goods to a creditor, as security for some debt or engagement; the thing so bailed.
In old English law
A surety; a person who undertook or became responsible for another. Pledges to prosecute: persons who became sureties for the plaintiff in a civil action, and were with him liable to be amerced, if he deserted or lost his suit.