Surety
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A pledge; a person who becomes or default of another. He is not supposed tody of his principal, Hke bail; and without a prc Tious suit against the peace: a recognizance or bond to keep before a justice of the peace, either on complaint of a third party who s-wears one bound [makes oath that he is in bodily not do it for mahoe or vexation].